Abstract:
This research is motivated by many among youth and the community who do
not understand the meaning of the dance Zapin they just simply come to dance. Sense
of their love for their own culture has begun to wear off This is because people are
more much concerned about outsider culture rather than culture of the nation itself.
Formulation of the problem in this research is "Do people know that there are the
values in the national character Zapin Dance In Village Meskom Bengkalis District
Bengkalis?". This research aimed knowing whether community know that there are
the values in the national character Zapin Dance In Village Meskom Bengkalis
districts Bengkalis. "
Zapin dance is one of the arts that are in Bengkalis particularly in the village
of Meskom. In Zapin Dance There are national character values ranging from
religious values, hard work, care for the environment and more values contained in
each zapin dance moves. The population in this study were all community in the
village Meskom namely 1060 KK. While the sampling technique using a random
sampling technique by Suharsimi Arikunto namely samples taken at random or
random for a large sample in this research was 10% of the population namely
amounted to 100 people. Data were collected through observations, questionnaires,
interviews, and technical literature. In analyzing the data using Quantitative
Descriptive analysis.
Results of this research indicate that the public is less know these nation
character values contained in Zapin Dance in the Village Meskom Bengkalis District
Bengkalis Because Less Know (64%) are in the benchmark of 33.34% - 66.66 %
when viewed of the opinion Sutrisno Hadi. The hypothesis that reads "Community
not knowing the national character values contained in Zapin dance in the village
Meskom Bengkalis District Bengkalis accepted. It can be concluded that the public's
knowledge about the values of the national character contained in Zapin Dance are
less know.
