IJSRST1738263 | Received : 21 Dec 2017 | Accepted : 04 Jan 2018 | January-February-2018 [(4)2: 04-11] © 2018 IJSRST | Volume 4 | Issue 2 | Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X Themed Section: Science and Technology 04 The Migration of Batak Toba Ethnic to Nagori Mariah Bandar in Pematang Bandar District Year of 1946 - 2011 Asnewastri Department of History Education, Universitas Simalungun, Indonesia ABSTRACT The intensity of German missionary efforts that had previously worked in Tapanuli and then deploy the Gospel to Simalungun by utilizing the Batak Toba as their companion encouraged Batak Toba ethnic shift to Nagori Mariah Bandar. The rapid transfer is also triggered by the large demand for labor in Dutch plantations as well as other foreign private parties in Simalungun, especially Nagori Mariah Bandar to open rice fields in order to support food availability in Simalungun, especially on Nagori Mariah Bandar in Bandar subdistrict. The objective of study is to determine the role of missionary and the Dutch in supporting Batak Toba ethnic migration to Nagori Mariah Bandar, to know the geographical condition of Bandar and the characters of Batak Toba ethnic affecting the process of transfer to Bandar and to know the impact of Batak Toba ethnic migration to Nagori Mariah Bandar in Bandar subdistrict. The research method used is field research with qualitative descriptive approach. The results of this study indicate that the transfer of Batak Toba ethnic to Nagori Mariah Bandar was immensely influenced by the Dutch interest which used Batak people to open agricultural and plantation land, and the incessant efforts of German missionaries who had previously worked in Tapanuli, then spread the gospel to Simalungun especially in Nagori Mariah Bandar by utilizing the Toba Batak people as their companion. Keyword : Migration, Batak Toba, Pematang Bandar I. INTRODUCTION Batak Toba Ethnic is one of the ethnics inhabiting the area of North Sumatra Province precisely in the highlands of Toba. The Batak Toba community is renowned for its eg "Maranak Sapputu Pitu Onom". Thus, the Batak Toba hometown commence to be crowded since the mid-19th century due to natural population increase while the area of agricultural land began to feel increasingly narrow. The expansion and opening of new rice fields is increasingly impossible due to various factors such as water and climate. it is similar to what was written by Simanjuntak (2004: 34) that "New community settlements can occur due to various things experienced in the old residential areas such as increasingly narrow farmland, densely populated settlements, the emergence of diseases that bring many deaths, social disputes that the fellow citizens forced some residents to seek and form livelihoods outside the old settlement ". It is a historical fact that Batak Toba ethnic has until now spread widely on various ragions in the archipelago. Some are farmers and many work out of agriculture. They live in big cities, district towns, subdistrict towns, and villages in various side of the Republic of Indonesia including neighboring countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. Once the vastness and the number of areas of North Sumatra that became the target of ethnic Batak Toba spread, almost all districts, even rural districts breached to seek a better life. One of the target areas of Batak Toba deployment in North Sumatera is Mariah Bandar, Bandar Subdistrict, Simalungun regency. Discussing the migration of Batak Toba ethnic to Nagori area Mariah Bandar on Bandar Subdistrict of Simalungun regency can not be separated from their philosophy values which still held up to today. The values of Batak Toba ethnic cultural philosophy are hagabeon, hasangapon and hamoraon, and timbah with sahala. Every family longs for the offspring and longevity called gabe, Having wealth and prosperity so- called hamoraon, and having the social authority named sangap, and possessing the power that is called sahala