Pregnant Ritual Communication in Sunda Karuhun Culture as Therapeutic Communication for Pregnant Mothers (Study of Communication Ethnography of Baduy Outside the Tribe Kanekes)

Sundanese cultural rituals have been inherent and become a unity of the Baduy Outside the community in their lives. This research study is about intercultural communication between the Baduy Outside the tribe where there are rituals that apply the principles of therapeutic communication. Each culture regulates aspects of social, economic, health, and others. In the context of health, there are rituals during the period of pregnant women until giving birth in the Baduy Outside the tribe, during the ritual period there are therapeutic communication practices that can comfort pregnant women. This research approach is qualitative with Dell Hymes' ethnographic communication theory. The results of this study that the presence of the closest person of the mother / husband can be a sedative pregnant woman in undergoing the process of pregnancy until delivery. Inheritance of rituals about Sundanese cultural customs of pregnant women is inherited and continues to be preserved into the identity of the Baduy Outside the community. Communication practices as a form of cultural inheritance, rituals that occur in the Outer Baduy for pregnant women are a reflection of the similarity and appropriateness of the principle of purpose with therapeutic communication. So that communication can be a panacea for meetings the needs of information that can provide peace and comfort for pregnant women.