Abstract:
This research has goal to describe The Profile of Akit Tribe in Teluk Setimbul District
Pasir Panjang Regency Meral Subdistrict Karimun, Riau Archipelago and social change that
happens in society of Akit Tribe in Teluk Setimbul District Pasir Panjang Regency Meral
Subdistrict Karimun, Riau Archipelago.
For analyzing data, the research is done quantitatively, the data that is collected is then
explained descriptively namely describing or telling the research result with the logical sentence
parsing so that it can be easy to understand.
This research was done in Teluk Setimbul District Pasir Panjang Regency Meral
Subdistrict Karimun, Riau Archipelago. The result from research of Akit Tribe has experienced
many changes that move forward, it can be seen from economic structure of Akit Tribe’s society
and custom of Akit Tribe now, where they have already changed and the changes can be seen
from child’s education, religion, means of livelihood, exogamy marriage, mobility that show
different change from previous time.
