ABSTRACT In the diversity of Muslim community, it cannot be separated from the local traditions that live and develop in accordance with the conditions of the local community, where they live, communicate, and adapt according to the existing environment. The process of spreading Islam in the archipelago has never been separated from the process of cultural acculturation, so the teachings of Islam brought by traders from Arabs and saints are easily accepted by the people of the archipelago. It is because in the teachings of Islam, the propagators of Islam has never spread religion through violence and hostility, but through peace, acculturation with local culture so that gradually forms a new culture by not removing ...