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 Indonesia has many forms of society that differ from one another. And on the island of Sumatra, especially North Sumatra, there are several forms of society that still adhere to customs and culture very well in this era of globalization and modernity. One of them is the Education Village in North Sumatra Province, precisely in Pematang Siantar, namely, Jabu Sihol. Jabu Sihol Educational Village, apart from being a cultural village that still has cultural heritage, is also a tourist village that tourists can visit. Jabu Sihol is a project located in Pematangsiantar, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Jabu Sihol tourist village has interesting education for tourists, namely cultural education and cultivation education. This research aims to determine tourism education in the Jabu Sihol tourist village and to determine the development of education. The research method used was field research, observation and interviews with management. The results obtained from this research are that the Jabu Sihol tourist village has cultural tourism education in the form of Ulos weaving, learning Batak script, Batak dance, typical Tapanuli cuisine and cultivation education in the form of farming, fish cultivation and ABF maggots. The educational development carried out is the development of cultural education and cultivation education.      

The Mangongkal Holi tradition which is carried out at each event makes the writer interested in researching it because in its implementation there are symbols and behaviors/activities that are interconnected and have their own meaning. What is the importance of the Mangongkal Holi tradition for the Toba Batak people so that this tradition must be carried out. This study uses descriptive analysis with qualitative research, which emphasizes the perspectives, ways of life, tastes or expressions of emotions and beliefs from the people studied regarding the problems studied which are also data. In this study the authors used a descriptive research method with a qualitative method. Therefore, the research subjects were traditional leaders, families who carry out the Mangongkal Holi ceremony, and local residents in North Sumatra. And the object of this research is the symbolic meaning of the Mangongkal Holi ceremony for the Toba Batak people in North Sumatra. Purposive sampling technique used to take informants.

This paper aims to answer the question whether the representations of a number of characters in the animated series Adit dan Sopo Jarwo contain ethnic stereotypes that exist in society. Adit dan Sopo Jarwo animated series depicts a neighborhood in the city of Jakarta by lifting the stories of the daily lives of Indonesian citizens. In it there are many characters with various ethnic backgrounds in Indonesia. Through semiotic analysis, it was revealed that two characters, named Babah Chang and Pak Anas, although in characters are outside the prevailing stereotypes, visually and verbally they still use stereotypes according to the ethnic origin of the two characters.

The Toba Batak tribe has a distinctive fabric known as ulos. Toba Batak ulos have types depending on their uses. But in the modern era, especially among urban communities, very few people know the types and uses. Motivated by the success of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm in image classification, this study will conduct a learning-based approach to classify 5 types of Toba Batak ulos (Ragi Hidup, Ragi Hotang, Mangiring, Sadum, and Sibolang). The process starts from data collection, data analysis, model building, model training, and confusion matrix. The dataset used is 1000 images with 80% training data, 10% valid data, and 10% test data. Convolution, maxpooling, dropout, flatten, and fully connected are the 5 layers forming the CNN model. The optimizer used is Adam with a learning rate of 0.001. The model generated in this study can detect Toba Batak ulos images at an accuracy rate of 94.00%.