The Cultural Meaning and Communicative Pattern of

Indonesia has many local cultures, one of which is Javanese. In Javanese, we have a lot of traditional events such as panggih, a series of traditional Javanese wedding events which are a meeting ceremony between the bride and groom. This paper focuses on examining the communication patterns of panggih ceremony in Kabupaten Batang, which is a Javanese wedding tradition. The uniqueness of the panggih ceremony in Batang is that there is a babalu dance which is usually used as an accompaniment before meeting the bride and groom. This paper uses qualitative method of ethnographic communication. The results of study are (1) the communication of panggih has five processions, namely kembar mayang, injak telur, sekar setaman, pangkon, and sungkeman. (2) It has a cultural meaning that is associated with the life of the Javanese people, such as prayers and hopes that are given to the bride.