PRANOTOCORO AS ONE OF THE SYMBOL OF JAVANESE CULTURE THAT BECOMES DIMINISH FROM DAY TO DAY

Abstract

Master of ceremony is well known as the representative of the modern person who is directing the ceremony, lead and to work on the list of the ceremony schedule. It is very common in the modern society to use Master of ceremony in their party in any occasi on both in formal or non formal parties. We as the Javanese, hence also use this Master of ceremony in some occasion in traditional ceremony as in matrimony, where we usually named it as Pranotocoro. Pranotocoro has the same rule with master of ceremony but the habit of culture, the profession that will be taken is very different , for example there are some condition for someone for being a Pranotocoro, he must old enough, or he must be known well by the families that ordering him, he also must have the abi lity to speak in three level of the Javanese language because Javanese language has undo usuk, he also can do traditional dance. This is very different with the feature for someone who wants to be a master of ceremony he only must be able to have public speaking ability because of the multi ability that must be full filled and also about the prestige itself hence, there few people that able to do this kind of job. Pranotocoro is one of the symbols of Javanese tradition, since it become the sub element of the tradition, the existence of Pranotocoro became so important. Because it is bundled as one unity that cannot partially be separated. this paper is briefly and literally expound about the profession and the language that use by Pranotocoro itself as the agent of change as the symbol of Javanese Culture.