Dance as a Medium of Islamic Transformation in Aceh

In Aceh, the culture has played an important role as means of dakwah. The idea which will be suggested in this study is related to the need of reinterpretation towards the existance of local culture of Aceh from more acomodative perspective in turns of practice, functions and its sub function in order to formulate the balance among worship, Islamic ethic and culture based on Syari`ah. So its can be implemented as instrument of communication in socio-religius aspect efectively, cheap and entertain for presenting Islamic message among the people of Aceh. It is important to be aware that in global era local people need a sharp instrument and relevant to communicate various kinds of Islamic values towards public to increase its spreading as wide as possible and also contribution for enligthening towards community. So, it is necessary to prepare a strategy for establishing means of sharp communication as had shown by amount of Islamic missionary in the past which applied dance as instrument to conducted their mission in archipelago. This writing is an effort to understand the value of the local culture especially Seudati dance as parts of the Aceh culture in accordance with phenomenology. It is mean that exksploration of experience of participants towards culture events complately and explaining the meaning of local culture is priority to present local knowledge sistimatically to public. According to kualitatif research, the proces to understand the facts as study object was done as closes as possible so the proces to cacth the meaning in it.