Mangain (Adopting a Child )

⁣Mangain/mangampu boru (adopting a child), also means accepting a foreigner (not Bataknese) to be like our own biological child by bearing the clan according to the clan that plays the game. For this reason, all elements of the extended family, Dongan Tubu, Boru, Bere, Dongan Respona and Hula-hula must also witness and confirm the clan at the event.


⁣She wants to marry someone who is not of the same ethnic group as her, so that she can marry and be accepted by her future husband's family, she must find adoptive parents who are of the same tribe as her future husband and want to adopt him as a child.

The person who gave her a scarf is her adoptive parents, who are from the same tribe as her future husband, her adoptive parents are close relatives of her future husband