Jaipong Dance "Energetic Dance from West Java"

Jaipongan, also known as Jaipong, is a popular traditional dance of Sundanese People, West Java, Indonesia. The dance was created by Gugum Gumbira, based on traditional Sundanese Ketuk Tilu music and Pencak Silat movements.

Dance Background

In 1961, Indonesian President Sukarno prohibited rock and roll and other western genres of music, and challenged Indonesian musicians to revive the indigenous arts. The name jaipongan came from people mimicking of the sounds created by some of the drums in the ensemble. Audiences were often heard shouting jaipong after specific sections of rhythmic music were played. Jaipongan debuted in 1974 when Gugum Gumbira and his gamelan and dancers first performed in public.

The most widely available album of Jaipongan outside of Indonesia is Tonggeret by singer Idjah Hadidjah and Gugum Gumbira's
Jugala orchestra, released in 1987, and re-released as West Java: Sundanese Jaipong and other Popular Music by Nanesuch/Elektra Records.

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Photographed by Hury Anggoro S

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West Java Traditional Song : Manuk Dadali

Manuk Dadali by Sambas Mangundikarta

Mesat ngapung luhur jauh di awang-awang
Meberkeun jangjangna bangun taya karingrang
Kukuna ranggoas reujeung pamatukna ngeluk
Ngapak mega bari hiberna tarik nyuruwuk

Saha anu bisa nyusul kana tandangna
Tandang jeung pertentang taya bandingannana
Dipikagimir dipikaserab ku sasama
Taya karempan kasieun leber wawanenna

Reff :
Manuk dadali manuk panggagahna
Perlambang sakti Indonesia Jaya
Manuk dadali pangkakoncarana
Resep ngahiji rukun sakabehna

Hirup sauyunan tara pahiri-hiri
Silih pikanyaah teu inggis bela pati
Manuk dadali ngandung siloka sinatria
Keur sakumna Bangsa di Nagara Indonesia

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West Java Traditional Song : Es Lilin

Es Lilin by NN

Es lilin mah didorong-dorong
dibantun mah dibantun ka Sukajadi
abdi isin dunungan samar kaduga
sok inggis mah aduh henteu ngajadi

Es lilin mah ceuceu buatan Bandung
dicandak mah geuning ka Cipaganti
abdi isin jungjunan duh bararingung
sok inggis mah aduh henteu ngajadi

Itu saha dunungan nu nungtun munding
digantelan geuning ku saputangan
itu saha dunungan ku ginding teuing
sing horeng mah aduh geuning jungjunan

Es lilin mah ceuceu dikalapaan
raosna mah geuningan kabina-bina
abdi alim dunungan paduduaan
sok sieun mah dibantun kamana-mana

Kamana mah geuningan ngaitkeun kincir
ka kaler mah ka kaler katojo bulan
kamana mah dunungan ngaitkeun pikir
moal paler geuningan da ku sabulan

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West Java Traditional Song : Cing Cangkeling

Cing Cangkeling by NN

Dengkleung dengdek buah kopi raranggeuyan
Keun anu dewek ulah pati di heureuyan

Cing cangkeling manuk cingkleung cindeten
Plos ka kolong bapak satar buleneng

Kleung dengdek buah kopi rarang geuyan
Keun anu dewek ulah pati di heureuyan

Cing cangkeling manuk cingkleung cindeten
Plos ka kolong bapa satar buleneng

 

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West Java Traditional Song : Bubuy Bulan

Bubuy Bulan by Benny Korda

Bubuy bulan sangray bentang
Panon poe
Panon poe disasate

Unggal bulan
Unggal bulan abdi teang
Unggal poe
Unggal poe oge hade

Situ Ciburuy
laukna hese dipancing
Nyeredet hate
Ningali ngeplak caina

Duh eta saha
Nu ngalangkung unggal enjing
Nyeredet hate
Ningali sorot socana

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Kujang "West Java Traditional Weapon"

     The kujang is a blade weapon native to the Sundanese people of western Java, Indonesia. The earliest kujang made is from around the 8th or 9th century. It is forged out of iron, steel and pattern welding steel with a length of approximately 20–25 cm and weighs about 300 grams. According to Sanghyang siksakanda ng karesian canto XVII, the kujang was the weapon of farmers and has its roots in agricultural use. It is thought to have originated from its predecessor, a kudi. The kujang is one of the traditional weapons in the Sundanese school of pencak silat. The kujang, like the keris, is a blade of sentimental and spiritual value to the people of Indonesia, who have a vast belief in supernatural powers.

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     Characteristics of a kujang includes a cutting edge and other parts such as pepatuk / congo the tip of the blade, eluk / silih the bulging curve at the base of the blade, tadah the inward curve at the belly of the blade, and mata small holes on the blade that are covered with gold or silver. Apart from its unique characteristics that tend to be thin, the material is dry, porous and contains many natural metal elements.

     In Bogor poem as it is spoken by Anis Djatisunda (1996–2000), the kujang has many functions and shapes. Based on functions there are four of them namely, kujang pusaka (symbol of grandeur and safety protection), kujang pakarang (warfare), kujang pangarak (ceremonial), and kujang pamangkas (agricultural tool). As for the shapes, there is the kujang jago (shape of a rooster), kujang ciung (shape of a Javan cochoa bird), kujang kuntul (shape of an egret bird), kujang badak (shape of a rhinoceros), kujang naga (shape of a mythical dragon), and kujang bangkong (shape of a frog). Apart from that there are shapes of the kujang blade that resemble female characters of wayang kulit as a symbol of fertility.

     

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West Java Traditional Clothes

West Javanese (Jawa Barat) Traditional Clothes -The West Java provincial capital Bandung is located in his Province had some tribes, such as the majority of Sundanese and Bedouin are differentiated into Bedouin In Bedouin and Beyond. Follows this is important information regarding.

West Java Custom clothing for men and women:

MEN'S CUSTOM CLOTHING WESTERN JAVA:

• Consists of dress coat with collar neck commonly called the SUIT a COMMITTED.
• Batik cloth or better known as the free motif. DODOT
• Trousers are excited with JAS TAKWA
• Headscarf/BENDO
• Necklace
• A keris tucked behind the waist
• Sandals or slippers
• The chain nail Tiger or h chain as a COMMITTED COAT ornament

WOMEN'S CUSTOM CLOTHING WESTERN JAVA:

• Kebaya motifs for embroidery or decoration with plain beads
• Batik cloth or FABRIC also called KEBAT DILEPE.
• Belts, the BEUBEUR function is called for mengancangkan fabric KEBAT DILEPE
• Scarves, commonly called KAREMBONG that serves as a sweetener.
• Some flower decorations that adorn the top of rocking head as well as a series of jasmine flowers that adorn the bun hair
• Necklace
• Footwear/slippers whose color is similar to the color of kebaya

(Photographed by Nanda Hersa)

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Julang Ngapak Traditional House With Roofs Shaped Wings

This traditional roof shape is the shape of the roof which widened on both sides of the field, if seen from the direction of the face of his home, roof form so resemble the wings of a bird flapping its wings are the Hornbill. At the height of the roof of scissors that pillar there is functioning technically to prevent water seeping into the roof cover, made from the leaves of reeds or palm leaves and straw roofs are tied with ropes of bamboo to the upper part of the frame of the roof. The form of such roofs can be found in Tasikmalaya Regency (Kampung Naga) and Kampung Dukuh, Kuningan and other places in West Java. One of the buildings that use the model of the roof of this Building is the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Bandung.

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Unique Mask Dance From Cirebon

Mask dance is a dance which the dancer wearing a mask. The mask has existed in the world since prehistoric times. Widely used in dance as part of ceremonies or retelling ancient stories of the ancestors. It is believed that the mask is closely related to the ancestral spirits are considered to be interpretations of the gods. In some tribes,the mask still adorn the various art activities and daily customs.

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The classic story of Ramayana and the growing standard of stories since hundreds years ago became the main inspiration in the creation of masks in Java. Masks in Javacreated for staging the Ballet tells the story of the classic stories.

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