Apropriasi Rumah Tradisional Batak Toba pada Arsitektur Gereja Katolik Pangururan di Samosir

This article focused on the appropriation of Batak-Toba traditional houses in architecture of the Catholic Church. Cultural appropriation is the use of cultural symbols, artifacts, genres, rituals, or technology by members of other cultures in which these elements are selected through a process of adjustment so that they can be accepted as property rights, without having to produce new forms. It can take the form of cultural exchange, cultural domination, cultural exploitation or transculturation. . The objective of this research is to discover the cultural appropriation found in the architectural form of the Pangururan Catholic Church, located on the island of Samosir, the Batak Toba culture’s area of origin. It used the qualitative research method with an ethnographic approach. Data were obtained through field observations, visual documentation, interviews and literature exploration. Meanwhile, the analysis process linked the findings from the field with a study of the results of literature exploration related to the Toba Batak traditional house (Ruma). Findings revealed that there were concepts from the traditional Batak Toba house adopted by the Catholic church and implemented in the architectural form of the Pangururan Catholic Church. The appropriation could be seen in the concept of building form, decorative ornaments, building position and building orientation of the Panguruan Catholic Church. This appropriation has enriched the culture of the Catholic church and the Batak Toba culture simultaneously. In this case the appropriation process has benefitted the two cultures that have met.