The characteristics of ethnics people at the banks of musi river in palembang

The objective of this research is to observe the ethnics people at the banks of Musi River (River Side) Palembang. The writer used qualitative method. The respondents of this research is 397 people living at the River Side of Musi in Palembang. The technique of data colletion in this research is interviewing and site observation. Then, the data is qualitatively learnt and selected using certain stage i.e. data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusion, and verification. The results of this research is that the ethnics of people living at the banks of Musi River consist of Malaya (Melayu), Arab, Java, and Sulawesi. The dominant people living at the River Side of Musi is from Malaya. The reasons why they live there (River Side of Musi) is that the majority is based on their parents’heritage and heredity. Another reason is the cost of or hiring living houses is relatively cheap. Their levels of education are relatively low : and consequently, they are unable to live in other places.