Ngaben

Ngaben a cremation ceremony or cremation of Hindus in Bali, Indonesia. Ngaben event is a ritual performed to send the bodies to the next life. Bodies sleeping properly placed, and the family will always think so (to sleep). There are no tears, because while the body is not there and will live or finding reinkarnasa last breaks in Moksha (freedom from the wheel of death and reincarnation).

The appropriate day for this event is always discussed with people who understand. On this day, the body, placed in the casket body-dead. This coffin-dead are laid in a sarcophagus-like Ox-shaped containers or in temples made of wood and paper. Form of cattle or monastery was taken to the cremation through a procession. The procession is not running on a straight path. This is to confuse evil spirits and keep him away from the body.

The highlight is the burning keluruhan Ngaben structure (Ox or temples made of wood and paper), along with the body. The fire needed to liberate the spirit from the body and facilitate the reincarnation.

Ngaben not always done with segaera. For members of high caste, it is reasonable to perform this ritual within 3 days. But for members of lower castes, the body was buried first, and then, usually in the group to a village, cremated.

Gamelan

Gamelan is a musical ensemble that usually highlight metallophone, xylophone, drums, and gongs. The term gamelan refers to the instrument / tool, which is a unified whole that is realized and pounded together. The word gamelan comes from the Javanese language, which means gamel hitting / beating, followed by a suffix that makes the noun. Gamelan orchestra are mostly in Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok in Indonesia in a variety of sizes and shapes of ensembles. In Bali and Lombok today, and in Java through the 18th century, the term gong is more considered synonymous with gamelan.

Emergence of gamelan preceded by Hindu-Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in the early days of recording history, which also represents the original art of Indonesia. Instrument was developed to shape up like this in the time of Majapahit Kingdom. In difference to the music of India, the only impact of the Indian music of the gamelan. In Javanese mythology, the gamelan maked by Sang Hyang Guru in Saka era, the god who ruled the land of Java, with palaces on the mountain Mahendra in Medangkamulan (now Mount Lawu). Sang Hyang Guru first create a gong to summon the gods. For a more specific message and then create two gongs, and finally formed set of gamelan. [Citation needed]

The description of the first ensemble of musical instruments found in the temple of Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, which has stood since the 8th century. Musical instruments such as bamboo flute, bells, kendhang in various sizes, lute, musical instruments and berdawai who swiped learned, is found in these reliefs. However, some elements in the metal instrument. However, relief of the instrument said to be the origin of the gamelan.

And making Penalaan gamelan orchestra is a complex process. Gamelan penalaan using four ways, namely slendro, pelog, "Degung" (special Sunda region, or West Java), and "madenda" (also known as the diatonic, the same as the original minor scale widely used in Europe.

Rat Temple

Rat Temple is a temple relic Majapahit Kingdom, located in the complex Trowulan, precisely in Hamlet Tinuk, Village Temon, Trowulan Sub-district, Mojokerto, East Java. This temple is one of the major archaeological sites in Trowulan. Rat Temple Building a ritual bathing place (petirtaan) at the government center complex of Majapahit. The main building consists of two levels.

This temple site excavated in 1914 by order of the Regent Kromodjojo Adinegoro Mojokerto. Because mice are often found around the ruins, the site later named Candi Tikus [1]. New mouse restored Temple in the year 1985-1989.

Rat Temple estimated built in the 13th century or 14th century. This temple is associated with the description in the book Mpu Prapanca Negarakertagama, that there is a place to bathe the king and certain ceremonies are performed in the swimming-pool

Soto

Soto, sroto, or Coto is a typical Indonesian food made from meat and vegetable broth. The most common meat used is beef and chicken, but also pigs and goats. Various regions in Indonesia have their own type of soup, with a content different, for example, Kediri Soto Madura soto, soto Betawi, soto Padang, soto Bandung, Sokaraja soto, soto Banjar, Coto Makassar. Soto was also named after the abortion, such as chicken soup, tripe soup, soto goats. Soto has many similarities with the soup.

Because there are several kinds of soup in Indonesia, each has a way of serving different. Soto could be served with various toppings, such as crackers, cakes, emping melinjo, chili sauce, peanut sauce, and others. And also it is with such other additional Pindang egg satay, satay shells, lime, koya (mixed pile of crackers with garlic), etc.. As we all know that the staple food of Indonesia is rice, so the soup is usually served with rice as the main menu. However, there are differences in the main menu is rice. Most soup served with rice separately, like Soto Betawi, Soto Padang, and others. However, there is also served along with rice or rice soup mix, for example Holy Soto. In addition, there are also soup served with lontong or cooked rice wrapped in banana leaves, for example Coto Makassar. Then, there is also the use of noodles, not rice as the main menu, for example Soto Mie Bogor.

Bubur Ayam

Chicken porridge is one of the favorite menu breakfast for many people. One of Bandung's famous cuisine and legendary enough is "Chicken Porridge H. Mang Oyo Tea" is. The main thing is Keistimewaannya porridge consistency, it is said, if we are behind the plate, chicken porridge is not going to spill so kentelnya. Kalo read in Kompas.com, Oyo porridge resilience are related to the material. In making porridge, he selectively chose raw materials. Rice directly taken from the area of origin, Majalengka, where he has 2 hectares of paddy fields. When the rice was from Majalengka, supposedly, a thin porridge. So after washing rice, then mixed with chicken broth and spices and stir until cooked in the steamer. Stirring usually starts at 02.00. Therefore, without using what-any (plain porridge) sense of Mang Oyo chicken porridge is still delicious. Also available source of enjoyment as well as this porridge cooked with a remembrance, "For two hours it was stirred with a remembrance," Oyo said in detikBandung. Various options topping is also given a unique terminology, call it Atel (Chicken Egg), Atelpin (Chicken Egg Pindang), Apple (Ati ampela), Paragraph (Chicken Ati), Random (Chicken Cakue), Ganja (Celery), and Krikil (Peanut Soybean).

Bambu gila

Mad Bamboo is a traditional attraction of embarrassment island communities, precisely in the province of Maluku and North Maluku province. Another name of this art is the Reed Mad or Suwen Bara.
In Maluku Province, this attraction can be found in two villages of Liang village, district and Salahatu Village Mamala, LEIHITU district, Central Maluku district. In North Maluku province, the sights of this mystical nuances can be found in several areas in the city of Ternate and its surroundings.
Mad Bamboo players consisted of seven young people or adults laki2 yg healthy and strong body who was accompanied by a person who acts as a trainer.
Before the attraction begins, has been prepared which has a bamboo suanggi approximately 2.5 meters long and 8 cm in diameter cut into 7 segments. each segment to be embraced by one player. additional equipment is incense or ginger. incense is used to show mad lord bamboo while ginger to show a little crazy bamboo.

attraction begins with prayer go for God. then the trainer to burn incense on the coconut shell while reciting mantras (spells spoken in the Land, one of the traditional language of Maluku). incense smoke was used to stain the bamboo will be used. kalo pake ginger, ginger cut to seven parts and then chewed by the trainer as he read the spell. then blown into the bamboo. function of the incense is the same or ginger, which is to summon the ancestors to give roh2 magical powers to the bamboo.

Reog

Reog is one of the regional culture in Indonesia is still very strong with things mystical and powerful mystic.
Understanding and figure warok until now is still a controversy, who actually deserve the name warok. Sometimes it is translated as someone who is known as someone who "master science" (lmu) in terms of Javanese beliefs.

He also frequently serves as an informal local leader with many followers. In this stage, the figure more visible warok as a bodyguard / retainer king Klana Sewandana (warok young) or elders and teachers (old warok). In this stage, the figure of a young warok described the practice of science "kanuragan" process, described by beefy chest hair, bushy mustache and bowl and a sharp eye. While the old warok described as a coach or supervisor who portrayed the young warok lean, long white beard, and walked with a cane.

Warok initially described as a figure of the order processing kanuragan accomplishments of science, not associated with women, but with little 8-15 year-old man who often called gemblakan. Often the warok also consume liquor. But this time warok has undergone a paradigm shift.

Gudeg

Gudeg (gudheg Java language) is the food of Yogyakarta and Central Java which is made from young jackfruit cooked in coconut milk and seasoned with kluwek. It took me hours to make this dish. Brown leaves are usually produced by the same identity cooked. Gudeg eaten with rice and served with thick coconut milk (areh), chicken, eggs, fried tofu and sauce krecek.

There are many variants gudeg, among others:

* Gudeg dry, ie gudeg areh served with thick, much thicker than plain milk in cooking.
* Gudeg wet, which is gudeg areh presented with watery.
* Gudeg Solo, namely the arehnya gudeg white.

Jamu

Jamu is the name for traditional medicine from Indonesia. Later, popularly known as herbs or herbs.

Herbal medicine made from natural materials, form part of such plant rhizome (roots), leaves and bark, fruit. There also used material from the animal body, such as bile "tangkur" goat or alligator.

Jamu is usually tastes bitter, so need to add honey as a sweetener to taste more tolerable drinker.

In many large cities there are professional sellers who carry medicinal herbs around hawking as a healthy drink and refreshing. Besides herbal medicine is also produced in medicinal plants by large companies such as Herbal Water Feature, Nyonya Meneer or "Djamu Djago", and sold at various drug stores in sachet packaging. This herbal medicine should be dissolved in hot water first before drinking. In the further development of herbal medicine is also sold in tablet form, extract and capsules.
Sales type and amount of herbs carry a very varied for each vendor. It depends on the habits they have learned from experience about what is preferred herbal medicine and the orders requested by customers. Every day the number and types of herbs sold are not always the same, depending on the habits and needs of consumers. After a survey [citation needed], obtained information that the type of herbs that are sold there are eight, namely kencur rice, chili Puyang, kudu laos, send key, uyup-uyup/gepyokan, turmeric acid, pahitan, and Sinom.

Rawon

Rawon or rice Rawon (because it is always served with rice) is a menu of soup, meat with special seasonings because it contains kluwek. Rawon, although known as the East Javanese cuisine, known also by the community east of Central Java (Surakarta).

Generally Rawon meat for beef that is diced. Very typical soup seasoning Indonesia, which is a mixture of onion, garlic, galangal (laos), coriander, lemon grass, turmeric, chilli, kluwek, salt, and vegetable oil. All of these ingredients (except lemon grass and galangal) refined, and saute until fragrant. This spice mixture then put in the stew broth with meat. Typical dark color comes from kluwek Rawon.

Rawon served with rice, equipped with a small bean sprouts, spring onion, crackers, and salsa.

Sate

Sate or satay or sometimes written satai foods are made from pieces of meat (chicken, goats, sheep, cows, pigs, fish, etc.) are diced, and the puncture satay ditusuki usually made of bamboo, then burnt using charcoal embers. Sate then served with various seasonings (depends on satay recipe variations).

Sate is known comes from Java, Indonesia, but the sate is also popular in countries other Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand. Sate is also popular in the Netherlands that influenced the cuisine of Indonesia that had been the colony. Japanese version is called yakitori.

Recipes and how it varied depending satay variations and recipes of each region. Almost all types of meat can be made sate. The origin country as satay, Indonesia has a variety of rich satay recipe, see the list of sate.

Usually sate sauce. This sauce can be soy sauce, peanut sauce, or the other. To sate the duck pond is full menu satay sauce peanut sweet spices or chili (according to taste) and sliced tomatoes and cucumbers. Then sate eaten with warm rice or, if in some areas served by lontong. Sate sometimes eaten with a diamond.

Angklung

Angklung is a traditional musical instrument which comes dar Indonesia Sunda Land, made of bamboo, which sounded shaken by (the sound caused by the impact of bamboo pipe body) that produces a sound that vibrates in the composition of tones 2, 3, and 4 tones in every size, both large and small. Barrel (tone) angklung instruments as Sundanese traditional music is mostly clumps pelog.Dalam Salendro and art which uses bamboo musical instruments known type of art called angklung. The type of bamboo used as the instrument is awi wulung (black bamboo) and awi temen (white bamboo).

Angklung is a musical instrument from West Java. Angklung gubrag in Jasinga, Bogor, is one who is still alive since more than 400 years ago. Rite begins with the emergence of rice. Angklung created and played to attract Dewi Sri, down to earth people that rice plants flourish.

Sunda community known since the time of the Sunda kingdom, of which as penggugah spirit in battle. Angklung function as a pump kept the spirit of the people still felt until the period of colonization, that's why the Dutch Government had banned the use angklung, this ban could make angklung popularity declined and only played by children at that time.

klepon

Klepon or kelepon is a kind of Indonesian traditional foods included in the snack market. Made of glutinous rice flour shaped like small balls with palm sugar content (sugar Java) and then boiled and served with grated coconut.

Usually sold together Klepon getuk and cenil (also called cetil) as an afternoon snack or early morning. Klepon color is usually white or green depending on taste. To klepon with green dye should be added from Suji leaves or pandan leaves.
Food recipes to make cooking a cake klepon / kelepon a nice, delicious, tasty, delicious and nutritious (wet cake) recipe is as follows:

A. Materials Required Between Others:

1. Sugar Java = 2 ounces
2. Flour Ketan = 0.5 Kg
3. Leaf Suji = 10 pieces
4. Palm Grate = sufficiently
5. Salt = to taste
6. Warm water = sufficiently
7. Kapur Sirih = sufficiently

B. By Cooking Method Guide Gradual That is:

1. Suji leaves mashed until really smooth and then pour the water and crumpled whiting taken to filter the water.
2. Knead sticky rice flour with enough warm water and lime and betel leaf Suji had been made earlier.
3. Form dough round of pecan and sugar Java ditengahnya enough not to leak.
4. Klepon boiled dough that had been formed earlier in the boiling water mixed with salt to taste until you see the floats and mature.
5. Roll in grated grated head until blended.

nasi kuning

Yellow rice is a typical Indonesian food. This food is made from cooked rice along with turmeric and coconut milk and spices. With the addition of spices and coconut milk, yellow rice has a more savory taste than white rice. Yellow rice is one variation of white rice is often used as a cone. Ordinary yellow rice served with various side dishes typical of Indonesia.

In the tradition of rice yellow color Indonesia illustrates the wealth, prosperity and the moral sublime. Therefore, yellow rice often served at Thanksgiving events and happy events such as birth, marriage and fiance. In Balinese tradition, the color yellow is one of the four sacred colors available, in addition to white, red and black. Yellow rice is therefore often used as offerings at the ceremony brass
This yellow rice is usually served with fried chicken, tempe and dry omelet. Can be also added potato cakes and fried liver sauce. Complementary vegetables are tomatoes, cucumber and basil leaves.
For those who like spicy, delicious eaten with sambal.

lontong balap

Lontong balap is Indonesian traditional foods that are characteristic of Surabaya in East Java. This food consists of lontong, bean sprouts, tofu fried, lentho, fried onions, soy sauce and sambal. Lontong balap usually dominated by the bean sprouts.
According to the first story lontong balap still sold in barrels of heavy and bear to the whole city. Barrels of heavy causing the sellers lontong this race as he should take a quick walk, give the impression racing (in Javanese: the race). In today's lontong balap more often sold in a stroller, even though such a lontong balap remained unchanged.

Pecel

pecel Is the typical food Pecel Madiun East Java Indonesia made of vegetable stew of spinach, bean sprouts, long beans, basil, leaves turi, krai (a type of cucumber) or other vegetables are served with a sauce poured pecel. The concept is similar pecel dish with a salad for the Europeans, namely the flushing fresh vegetables mayonnaise topping. Just to pecel pecel toppingnya sauce. Pecel often served with peanut peanut brittle, peanut brittle plates of shrimp or rice. Also pecel also usually served with warm white rice plus chicken or jerohan. Ways could serve in a plate or in a folded leaf called pincuk. These dishes like gado-gado, although there are differences in the materials used. Pecel a spicy taste characteristic sting of this dish
Pecel names have different meanings in the Slawi, Tegal, Central Java. Pecel not presented in the form of vegetables, but the shape of rujak. Pecel version Slawi area consists of fresh fruits such as guava, pineapple, papaya, and mango and doused with a thick brown sugar sauce
Unlike the Pecel Madiun, Tulungagung Pecel not complete Pecel lauknya Madiun, and seasonings Pecel sweeter than Madiun.

Tiwul

Tiwul, or Thiwul is the staple food rice substitute made from sweet potatoes or cassava is a root is a tuber or a long tree with an average physical diameter and 2-3 cm long, 50-80 cm, depending on the type of cassava grown. Tuber flesh white or yellowish. Cassava tubers store could not help but be placed in the refrigerator. Symptoms of damage are indicated by dark blue solution due to the formation of cyanide which is toxic to humans.

Cassava tubers are a rich source of energy but very poor carbohydrate protein. A good source of protein actually present in the cassava leaves because they contain the amino acid methionine .. South Mountain Population (Pacitan, Wonogiri, Gunung Kidul) is known to consume these foods daily.

Tiwul made from cassava. As a staple food, lower caloric content than rice, but enough to meet as a rice substitute food. Believed to prevent Tiwul ulcer disease, stomach growls, and so forth.

kecak dance

In Bali there is a kind of dance that is quite unique, and is played mainly by men, where the number of players in the tens or more dancers who sit in line and a circle with a specific rhythm called the sound "cak", raising his hands. It is described as the line of apes help fight Ravana, Rama in the Ramayana story.

Kecak Trance Dance ritual comes from, the tradition in which the dancers will be unconscious for communication with the gods, or spirits of the ancestors who then convey their expectations to the community. In dance kecak not use the instrument and only use kincringan imposed on the feet of the dancers who are playing characters Ramayana. While the dancers in the circle wearing a checkered cloth wrapped around their waists.

This kecak dance created in the 1930s by Wayan modulus and with a German painter Walter Spies. They create a dance based on ancient traditions and take sanghyang from parts Ramayana story. This dance became popular when the modulus Wayan Balinese dancer with her tour around the world to introduce the Kecak dance. Until now become a dance Kecak Balinese art fame.

wayang

Puppet known since prehistoric times of about 1500 years before Christ. Indonesian society held belief [pagan] worship of ancestral spirits called or dahyang hyang, manifested in the form of [the statue] or image.

Wayang is the Indonesian traditional art developed primarily in Java and Bali. Puppet show has been recognized by UNESCO on November 7, 2003, as a work of amazing cultural stories in narrative and beautiful heritage and valuable (Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity).

There are puppet versions played by people in costume, which is known as the puppet people, and there is also a collection of puppet plays puppet puppeteer. Puppet plays is such a mastermind puppet or puppet show. Stories told in the wayang performance usually comes from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Puppet show in every country has its own technique and style, thus puppet is made in Indonesia Indonesian people who have a genuine story, style and extraordinary puppeteer.

Sometimes repertoire Panji stories and stories Menak (Islamic stories) performed well.

Puppet, by the predecessors of this country really has a very deep meaning. Sunan Kali Jaga and Raden Patah was instrumental in developing the Puppet. The Guardian in the land of Java is arranged into three parts. First Wayang Kulit in East Java, the Wayang Wong or Wayang Orang in Central Java, and the three Wayang Golek in West Java. Very bekaitan each one another. Ie "Where the contents (Wayang Wong) and Where the Skin (Wayang Kulit) should be sought (Wayang Golek)".

batik

Batik is the art of beautifying clothes have high artistic value and has become part of the culture of Indonesia (especially Java) for a long time. Besides batik can refer to two things. The first is the technique of coloring cloth using the night to prevent the coloring part of the above clothes.batik made with white material made of cotton cloth called. Today the batik is also made on other materials such as silk, polyester, rayon and other synthetic materials. Motif batik wax is formed by using a tool called a canting for subtle motifs, or brush for large motifs, so that the liquid wax to seep into the fabric fibers. Fabrics that have been painted with wax and then dyed with the desired color, usually starting from a young colors. Immersion and then taken to another motif with color or black older. After some time coloring process, which has painting cloth dipped in chemicals to dissolve "lilin". Java women in the past made their skills in batik for a living, so in the past, batik work is exclusively women work until the invention of "Batik Cap" which allows the entry of men into the field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely that the coastal batik masculine lines as can be seen in shades of "Mega Clouds", which in some coastal areas batik work is common for men.