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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Ritual Since King Airlangga

      KUNGKUM SINDEN


Made with a soak in the Spring, District kudu, Jombang, a trusted sinden will stay young and have a melodious voice. Not surprisingly, about 50 kungkum singer to follow rituals in Spring Made it. How come?

A stage size was standing the middle of the page quite broad. On it, lined up 37 sinden who will graduate. They stood in a row wearing distinctive clothing sinden, namely jarik and red kebaya. From the expression on their faces radiating happiness as well as anxious. "Nervous also because it would graduate," said Yayuk Asiati, one from the Village sinden Genengan Jasem Kabuh District, on Thursday (18/11/2010).

The sound of gamelan playing in the courtyard Spring Made. Alunannya a dynamic increasingly compact with the movement of a number of traditional dancers waddle. Not long ago, about 37 runs alongside singer. They paraded into a lake, known as Spring Made.

After entering the spring, in turn, one by one sinden do spray. On the first turn, spray carried by the Assistant I Eksan Gunajati. Until, continued in other Muspida member.

Each spray is made by public figures are believed to carry a hope. Moreover, for sinden itself, every splash of water is believed to make the sound more melodious sinden. "Yes, yes hopefully selling," said Eksan when doing spray.

After being washed, the sinden back on stage. After that, sinden alternately get a green scarf kalungan marker sinden title officially embedded. Chairman of the PKK Jombang Wiwiek Suyanto didaulat draping scarves on every sinden. The facial expression of happy and relieved radiated from each face sinden.

The event continued with the charity village. Hundreds of people who had gathered in the yard the spring, it has brought their food is wrapped in a basin and covered by a scarf. A village elders to give advice-advice when the event starts. Charity village was closed with prayer readings. After that, their food is opened and eaten together by the audience who came.

Nasrul Divine, Section Head of Culture, Disporabudpar Jombang, Thursday (11/18/2010), tells, kungkum sinden is a tradition that has been running since the time of King Airlangga. A woman who would become sinden should first be bathed in the spring in the village of Made, the District kudu. The hope, it will be sinden sound like the wife of King Airlangga tuneful.

The man who was familiarly called Cak Nas explains, the meaning of kungkum sinden sinden is a graduation ceremony for the plunge into the world of traditional art. By bathing in the spring, then one can sound melodious. In addition, he said, sinden aura will also appear.

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