[MERTI BHUMI] DAY 02 SESSION 04: KETHOPRAK

Ketoprak is a traditional drama performed by a group of art and displayed in a scene by taking a historical story or fairy tale punctuated by buffoonery and songs accompanied by traditional musical instruments of Java.

Malangrejo has it's own Kethoprak group led by Mr. Sugeng. They aims for keep the Javanese culture exist even bring them to the world. As for preparing for the competition in August, this group played the scenes for Malangrejo's Merti Bhumi.

[MERTI BHUMI] DAY 02 SESSION 03: PERFORMING ART NIGHT

In this performing art, there will be performance of Malangrejo’s culture, such as Badui and Jathilan. Badui dance is one of traditional dance bringing a story about war. It symbolizes a group of soldier in training. Jathilan is a dramatical dance tells story about a war between two hussars. Sometimes, it is brought based on some Javanese legendary story (Babad Tanah Jawi) such as cerita Panji, Arya Penangsang, Majapahit story, and many more.

[MERTI BHUMI] DAY 02 SESSION 02: KIRAB BUDAYA Part 3

MERTI BHUMI DAY 02: KIRAB BUDAYA
(THE CARNAVAL)

Kirab is carnival or parade. It will feature a procession of people dressed in accordance with their respective background and also there will be ‘gunungan’, i.e. mountains of vegetables and fruits that will be chased by the citizens at the end of the parade. The parade will walk around Malangrejo. Then, it will be ended with the planting of trees namely teak, resin, and jackfruit.

[MERTI BHUMI] DAY 02 SESSION 02: KIRAB BUDAYA Part 2

MERTI BHUMI DAY 02: KIRAB BUDAYA
(THE CARNAVAL)

Kirab is carnival or parade. It will feature a procession of people dressed in accordance with their respective background and also there will be ‘gunungan’, i.e. mountains of vegetables and fruits that will be chased by the citizens at the end of the parade. The parade will walk around Malangrejo. Then, it will be ended with the planting of trees namely teak, resin, and jackfruit.

[MERTI BHUMI] DAY 02 SESSION 02: KIRAB BUDAYA Part 1

MERTI BHUMI DAY 02: KIRAB BUDAYA
(THE CARNAVAL)

Kirab is carnival or parade. It will feature a procession of people dressed in accordance with their respective background and also there will be ‘gunungan’, i.e. mountains of vegetables and fruits that will be chased by the citizens at the end of the parade. The parade will walk around Malangrejo. Then, it will be ended with the planting of trees namely teak, resin, and jackfruit.

[EVENT] MERTI BHUMI 2015

MALANGREJO'S MERTI BHUMI
Time : August 21st – 22nd , 2015
Place : Malangrejo, Wedomartani, Ngemplak, Sleman, Yogyakarta (See on map)

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Schedule:

Friday, August 21st, 2015

19.00 – 22.00        : Taking Holy Water

The holy water will be taken from three of the oldest wells in each hamlet in Malangrejo, namely Sono, Malangrejo, and Nglarang. The holy water will be used for watering the trees that will be planted during the carnival.

Saturday, August 22nd , 2015

08.00 – 12.00        : Kenduri

Kenduri is tradition of banquet food to commemorate an event that is done jointly. The guests sat around the food that is served then praying it together. Then after the event is over, the food is taken home by the guests.

13.00 – 15.00        : Kirab

Kirab is carnival or parade. It will feature a procession of people dressed in accordance with their respective background and also there will be ‘gunungan’, i.e. mountains of vegetables and fruits that will be chased by the citizens at the end of the parade. The parade will walk around Malangrejo. Then, it will be ended with the planting of trees namely teak, resin, and jackfruit.

15.30 – 17.30        : Performing Art I

In this performing art, there will be performance of Malangrejo’s culture, such as Badui and Jathilan. Badui dance is one of traditional dance bringing a story about war. It symbolizes a group of soldier in training. Jathilan is a dramatical dance tells story about a war between two hussars. Sometimes, it is brought based on some Javanese legendary story (Babad Tanah Jawi) such as cerita Panji, Arya Penangsang, Majapahit story, and many more. 

19.30 – 21.30         : Performing Art II

In this performing art II there will be art and music performance from children, teenagers, and elder.

22.00 – 03.00        : Kethoprak

Ketoprak is a traditional drama performed by a group of art and displayed in a scene by taking a historical story or fairy tale punctuated by buffoonery and songs accompanied by traditional musical instruments of Java.

Contact Person:

Phone: +62 857 2591 6584 ( Nur H. )

Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malangrejo.culturalvillage

Official Website:  www.malangrejo.com

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[ART] Javanese Traditional Toys and Games: MAINAN ANAK

Gerobak Sapi Miniature. Photo by Arjun

Girls are playing cublak suweng. Photo taken from SOLOPOS

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There are many types of Javanese Traditional Toys, most of them are made from things exist around the village, e.g. wood, banana leaves, paper, etc. There are also many games popular among children, such as 'cublak suweng, gobag sodhor, lompat tali, engklek, etc'.

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Mainan anak merupakan mainan tradisional yang terbuat dari bahan bekas atau bahan – bahan dari alam yang dibentuk menjadi mobil – mobilan, layangan dan sebagainya. Selain itu, mainan anak tradisional juga dapat berupa cublak sueng, gobag sodor, dan masih banyak lagi yang hingga saat ini, anak – anak kecil masih ada yang memainkannya. Biasanya mainan anak ini dilombakan.

[ART] Javanese Traditional Poem: MACAPAT

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Macapat a traditional Javanese song or poem. Each verse on macapat contents a sentence called 'gatra', each gatra consists of a number of syllables (guru wilangan), and the ending sound of the sentence called guru lagu. In the other region such as in Bali, Sasak, Madura, and Sunda also has macapat but known in other names. People in Malangrejo still learn and perform this art even in these days.

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Macapat merupakan tembang atau puisi tradisional Jawa. Setiap bait pada macapat memiliki baris kalimat yang disebut gatra, dimana setiap gatra terdiri dari sejumlah suku kata (guru wilangan) tertentu, dan berakhir pada bunyi sajak akhir yang disebut guru lagu. Pada daerah lain seperti Bali, Sasak, Madura, dan Sunda juga memiliki macapat tetapi dengan nama yang lain. Dusun Malangrejo yang tak lekang oleh waktu masih memiliki seni macapat dikehidupannya sehari – harinya.

[ART] Javanese Traditional Choir: PANEMBROMO

Sindhens sing Javanese Traditional songs for Wayang Performance

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Panembromo is Javanese Traditional Songs that sung together in group (Javanese Traditional Choir). This group is almost extinct, most of people prefer Indonesian and English song to sing, but a choir like this still can be found in Malangrejo.

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Panembromo merupakan lantunan tetembangan Jawa yang dinyanyikan secara bersama-sama. Dahulu kala ada dan masih eksis dikalangan pedesaan. Seiring berjalannya waktu, aktivitas Panembromo menjadi terkikis oleh berkembangnya dunia. Namun, masyarakat dusun Malangrejo masih melestarikan kesenian ini.

[ART] YOGYAKARTA CLASSICAL DANCE

Tari Klasik Yogyakarta. FOTO ANTARA/Regina Safri/hp/11.

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Yogyakarta's Classical Dance was created by the Kingdom's Artists long time ago and mentioned as one of legendary art heritage. Nowadays, the Classical Dance is still exist as one of Javanese original traditional dance since a lot people want to learn how to dance it, but they have to more patient since the moves are slowly and elegant.

In Malangrejo, there is group of Javanese Classical Dance that routinely practice once a week. They perform the dance on many events, such as Merti Dusun, etc.

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Tari klasik  gaya Yogyakarta  dibuat oleh seniman – seniman keraton zaman dulu. Banyak yang menilainya sebagai warisan seni bermutu tinggi. Tari klasik sampai hari ini masih lestari karena masih ada yang tertarik mempelajarinya. Belajar tarian klasik gaya Yogyakarta harus ekstra sabar karena gerakan dan rangkaian tarinya rumit. 

Kesenian tari klasik sudah tidak asing lagi dikenal masyarakat, di dusun Malangrejo juga melakukan latihan bersama tari klasik. Latihan ini dilakukan setiap hari minggu di rumah pak Lurah.

[ART] Javanese Traditional Theater: KETHOPRAK

Kethoprak in Malangrejo 2014. Photo ARJUN

Kethoprak in Malangrejo 2014. Photo ARJUN

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Ketoprak (Javanese: Kethoprak) is a theatrical genre of Java featuring actors who may also sing to the accompaniment of the gamelan (Javanese traditional instruments). It draws its stories from Javanese history and romances and in this differs from wayang wong, which shares with wayang kulit a repertoire drawn from the Hindu epics Mahabarata and Ramayana, as well as from ludruk which uses contemporary settings and the three-walled srimulat, which specializes in vampire stories. According to Clifford Geertz it was invented as recently as 1923.

Ketoprak troupes might own or rent a performance building, such as Ketoprak Srimulat that used to be performed in a theatre both in Jakarta and Surabaya back in the 80s, or troupes might travel through villages. The travelling ketoprak troupe is called Kethoprak Tobong, also known as Ketoprak Tonil. It might be considered as common people theatrical tradition in Java. The show were performed in certain period in an empty plain near a village and moved from one place to another, in fashion similar to western travelling circus. In this traveling troupe, the performers and staffs also brought show properties; such as costumes, stage decorations, chairs, gamelan, sound system, diesel electric generator, all were contained in a portable building that also used as set or stage called "tobong". During their journey, the troupe members also living in this tobong.

Recently ketoprak has been adopted into television show, the "Ketoprak Humor" show was aired in Indonesian national television. It is a comedy and action performance, often took place in modern settings or in historical ancient Javanese kingdoms. The ketoprak that took the story of ancient Java is quite similar with Wayang wong performance, however ketoprak performance is more free for improvisations, jokes and adoption of popular languages, while Wayang wong are traditionally highly stylized with precise and structurized dance drama discipline.
taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoprak

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Kethoprak merupakan sebuah kesenian di masyarakat jawa, dimana berisi sandiwara yang diselingi lagu lagu jawa serta diiringi oleh gamelan. Cerita yang disajikan berbagai macam, cerita dapat diambil dari cerita legenda atau sejarah jawa bahkan sekarang ada kethoprak humor, dimana mengandung unsur humor didalam cerita.

Di dusun Malangrejo, kethoprak masih hidup di masyarakat. Warga biasanya akan bermain kethoprak apabila ada event – event tertentu. Saat akan ada event warga berlatih bersama untuk pertunjukkan ini secara rutin setiap minggunya.

[ART] JATHILAN DANCE

Jathilan in Malangrejo 2014. Photo by Arjun

Jathilan in Malangrejo 2014. Photo by Arjun

Jathilan is a dramatical dance tells story about a war between two hussars. Sometimes, it is brought based on some Javanese legendary story (Babad Tanah Jawi) such as cerita Panji, Arya Penangsang, Majapahit story, and many more.

While performing, the dancers bring an artificial bamboo horse known as Kuda Kepang, riding it as a great soldier acoompanied with Javanese Traditional Gamelan music.

More characters appear on the dance such as masked dancers which is figured the antagonists, such as Buto, Rasekso (Raksasa), Genderuwo, Barongan, and entertainer figures known as Penthul and Tembem.

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Kesenian yang telah lama dikenal oleh masyarakat Yogyakarta dan juga sebagian Jawa Tengah. Jathilan juga dikenal dengan nama kuda lumping, kuda kepang, ataupun jaran kepang. Didalam pertunjukkan jathilan, para penari menceritakan cerita tertentu yang hendak disampaikan, maka akan ada instrumen lain, yaitu penabuh gamelan, perias, dan pawang. Pawang disini merupakan sosok yang bertanggung jawab untuk mengendalikan jalannya pertunjukkan dan menyembuhkan penari yang kerasukan.

Warga masyarakat pada umumnya senang dengan kesenian ini, karena sangat menghibur. Tidak lain juga dengan masyarakat Malangrejo, dimana kesenian jathilan ini masih hidup ditengah masyarakat dan sering dilakukan pertunjukkan untuk acara – acara tertentu.

[ART] SENI HADRAH (BADUI BADROH)

Badui Badroh performed by Malangrejo's Badroh Group

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Seni Hadrah (Rodat) is one of Islamic traditions which developed along with the tradition of commemorating the Maulid Nabi (the birth of Prophet Muhammad). This art uses Arabic poetry based on Kitab Al-Berzanji (a famous literary book among Muslims) tells about the Prophets. "Seni Hadrah was rapidly growing among pesantren".

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Asal mula kesenian Badui adalah melalui pengalaman kisah orang jawa yang pergi naik haji ketanah Suci bertemu dengan suku Badui yang liar, namun melalui berbagai pemahaman, mereka dapat untuk hidup teratur melalui ajaran agama islam. Gerakan gerakan yang ada di tari badui menunjukkan kekompakan, ritmis dan dinamis. Hingga saat ini belum ada yang tahu kapan dan siapa yang memberikan ide mengenai seni badui ini. Warga dusun Malangrejo juga aktif dalam kegiatan ini, mereka berlatih secara rutin setiap hari senin malam di rumah Bapak RW 35. Biasanya seni badui ini ditampilkan di acara – acara tertentu dusun Malangrejo.

[ART] Javanese Traditional Instruments: KARAWITAN

Gamelan played by Malangrejo's people. Photo by Arjun

Gamelan is traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. The most common instruments are metallophones played by mallets as well as a set of hand played drums called kendhang which register the beat. Other instruments include xylophones, bamboo flutes, bowed instrument called rebab, and even vocalists called sindhen.

Although the popularity of gamelan has declined since the introduction of pop music, gamelan is still commonly played in formal occasions and in many traditional Indonesian ceremonies. For most Indonesians, gamelan is an integral part of Indonesian culture.

As a cultural village, Malangrejo actively motivate people to play, enjoy, and share the arts of Gamelan and Traditional Javanese Music by holding routine rehearsals and performing the music almost in every events.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

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Karawitan adalah musik Indonesia yang berlaras non diatonis (dalam laras slendro dan pelog) yang garapan-garapannya sudah menggunakan sistim notasi, warna suara, ritme, memiliki fungsi, sifat pathet, dan aturan garap dalam bentuk instrumentalia, vokalis dan campuran, enak didengar untuk dirinya maupun orang lain (Suhastjarja,1984).

Warga Malangrejo sendiri juga masih memiliki seni karawitan, karena dusun Malangrejo memiliki satu set gamelan lengkap. Gamelan ini tidak dianggurkan, namun digunakan secara rutin oleh warga untuk berlatih. Dimana setiap malam sabtu para pemuda dusun berlatih bersama, sedangkan malam senin merupakan jadwal berlatih bapak – bapak.