Imagine a peaceful place, surrounded by lush greenery. The sound of wind rustling bamboo hits dedauanan, chirping birds, and splashing streams. Listen to the whispers of nature that greet in purity, you deserve to see with the eyes of the heart so that they brought the gift of experience inherent in the liver. There are a lot of local knowledge to be obtained in the village Kanekes, a very meaningful lesson reminds us of the identity of one of the ancestors of the old tribe in the archipelago are still living in the traditional way.
Kanekes village BANTEN
Forget cell phones or other electronic devices when you visit the Village Kanekes or more popularly called the Village Baduy in Banten. In addition there is no electricity to charge your phone, even the signal is too difficult to obtain. Better you looked at the nature around and listening to the sounds of nature. This is where you will find past lives before entering an era of industrial revolution due to take over the world.
Baduy village, located in the hills of Mount Kendeng, about 75 kilometers south Rangkasbitung, Banten. This is the right place for you who want to experience the tranquility that is rarely found in big cities. For those who have a sense of adventure may feel trekking in Baduy village very intriguing. The daily life of Bedouins who hold fast to tradition is the main attraction for those who are interested in the unique culture of local wisdom trace remarkable.
Baduy region precisely located in the village Kanekes, Leuwidamar subdistrict, Lebak district. It is estimated that the end of the 18th century Baduy area stretches from districts Leuwidamar now up to the South Coast. Now Baduy area of approximately 5102 hectares. Borders are now made at the beginning of the 20th century with the opening rubber plantation in the village and surrounding Leuwidamar.
Baduy tribe is often called urang Kanekes. Baduy actually not the name of the community in this village. The name became attached because it was given by the Dutch researchers who equate them with Badawi or Bedoin Arabs are nomadic or sedentary. From Badawi or Bedoin, then the name that was shifted to the Baduy. Bedouins, as settled in the village of Kanekes, actually more accurately described as a person Kanekes. However, because the term “Bedouin” already been known, hence the name “Bedouin” more popular than “The Kanekes”.
They live in the village Kanekes, Leuwidamar subdistrict, Lebak, Banten. The village is located about 38 km from the capital of Lebak, Rangkasbitung, or about 120 km from Jakarta. Kanekes village has 56 Baduy villages. In the Baduy people living in the village of Cikeusik, Cikertawana, and Cibeo. While the Outer Baduy people live in 53 other villages. Outer Baduy village often called hometown panamping or companion, which serves to keep Baduy Dalam.
Daily Bedouin men using white headband. Unless puun or traditional leaders, the men wearing a knee-length black gloves and dark blue tartan. Women using batik sarong blue, strapless blue, long-sleeved white smocks. The girls use bracelets and necklaces of beads.
Baduy Dalam, they faithfully walk in travel, promoting honesty, refusing to pollute the environment (soil and water), and do not smoke. Baduy In applying more stringent than the customary Outer Baduy. One difference, residents are allowed Outer Baduy drive. Inner Baduy live with customary rules are strict.
In Baduy Dalam, pikukuh or custom rules is a fixed price that is not negotiable. This differs from the Outer Baduy. In terms of food, bedouin classified as very fanatical. They will not eat the type of food that is not eaten by their ancestors will not make a habit which had never previously done their ancestors. Bathing habits do not use soap has continued until today. Not wearing a soap that does not mean they do not have money, but actually in order to follow the habits of their parents. If there is a Bedouin citizens who try to use soap in the shower and get caught, certainly has been cautioned. This warning can lead to dismissal as citizens Baduy Dalam.
According to the beliefs of their Kanekes descendants of Batara Cikal, one of the seven gods or god who is sent to Earth. The origin of the often attributed to Adam as the first ancestor. According to their belief, Adam and his descendants, including Kanekes citizen has the task of ascetic or ascetic (mandita) to maintain the harmony of the world.
Baduy people’s trust is homage to the spirits of ancestors and belief in the power of the so-called Nu Kawasa. Their belief is often called the Sunda Wiwitan. Orientation, concepts and religious activities addressed to pikukuh (custom rules) so that people living in the groove and welfare of Bedouin life and the world. Kanekes public confidence in the so-called Sunda Wiwitan rooted in the worship of ancestral spirits (animism) which on further developments is also influenced by Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. The essence of trust is shown by an absolute pikukuh or customary provisions adopted in everyday life. The most important contents of the ‘pikukuh’ (compliance) Kanekes is the concept of “no change whatsoever”, or change as little as possible.
In the area of Baduy Dalam, there are three villages, each headed by a chief or deputy called Puun and called Jaro. All three are village Cibeo, Cikesik, and Cikertawana. Puun each has a different role. Puun Cibeo care of agriculture, puun Cikesik religious care, and puun Cikertawana responsible in terms of health or medicine. This responsibility applies collectively to all three villages.
Lebak local governments since 1990 stated that Bedouins are the regional cultural heritage. They still maintain the patrimony which is a national asset that must be maintained. It was confirmed by the regional regulation number 13/1990. Thus the forest and river maintained its continuity. According to the village chief Kanekes Regional Jaro, Baduy tribe occupies a land area of 5,101 ha, divided into 53 villages. Three villages occupied by Bedouin In each village called Cikeusik, Cikertawana and Cibeo, while the rest is occupied by Outer Baduy. Bedouin tribes that settled right at the foot of the mountains in the village Kendeng Kanekes, Leuwidamar subdistrict, Lebak, Banten.
CULINARY Kanekes village BANTEN
There is no restaurant in Baduy, so please bring your own food. Despite its hospitality Baduy tribe would be happy to entertain you at home. Baduy In applying shifting cultivation with cultivation in rotation. The Baduy tribe is vegetarian, daily food derived from nature around the land belongs to them. The main livelihood is farming rice Kanekes community huma. In addition they also get extra income from selling fruits that they get in the woods like durian and keranji acid, as well as wild honey.
Most blue traditional clothes woven by women Baduy, so you can carry this cloth home as souvenirs. There is also an interesting souvenirs as gifts for your loved ones.
If you are interested to stay it can stay in the homes of traditional Baduy, in the village of Cicakal. Houses are built of woven bamboo and thatched roofed. These houses can survive up to 25 years but the roof must be changed 5 years. Baduy people do not use electronic technology, so do not expect you’ll find appliances that use electricity in sini.Rumah-existing homes in Baduy uniform, berpaggung and standing one meter above the ground. Frame made of wood, woven bamboo walls and thatched or fibers. Building follows the contour of the land, always face to face so it looks unique and neat. Baduy houses do not use windows. There’s only entrance and exit from the front and rear. Sometimes there is only a door at the front only. The front is always there for a chat divan.
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Any type of vehicles should be abandoned village Cibolegar and start exploring nature on foot Baduy. The atmosphere in Baduy area is very cool and natural, there is no air pollution and environmental pollution. Traveling from village to other villages passed through a path that occasionally cross the river and hills or passing natural bamboo bridge constructed without nails.
Will surprise you to know that there are so many things that can be done without the aid of electricity or other modern industrial tool. In fact Baduy can survive well with local knowledge admirable manner.
The air is very refreshing in this village, will make you forget the fatigue of the body after the trip. On the way in the village observed by you how long curved thin bamboo bridge over the river which in the end is the Bedouin in the area.
In Hamlet Cibeo you will see a unique landscape and extraordinary. Stilt houses neat, with the same size, lined-row. Each house has an interior that is approximately the same. In it, there is a rectangular room, L-shaped leaves room for the rest of the room. There is a furnace in the second chamber, making leaf roof was blackened inside. Woven wall. Home bamboo sticks, with short steps to the ground. In the middle there is a low berundakan field. On one end there is the hall where events hamlet. On the other end is the place to stay Puun, village elders. This hamlet surrounded by mountains, so dark quickly come. And you can do is talk with the friendly inhabitants in the house.
Everyday, the Baduy people use berdialek Sundanese Sundanese-Banten. However, many of those who can speak Indonesian and are accustomed to interaction with visitors. They often become a guide or porter. Baduy people also do not mind if you ask about the teachings and customs.
Baduy every citizen is required to preserve the environment because of their view of the universe and its contents are the property of the Above and should be taken not to be damaged. Nature must be preserved for the sake of the future of their children and grandchildren. Baduy tribe banned cutting down trees in forests that have been determined. This makes the air is fresh with a natural green spread everywhere. The sky looks clean. So also with the birds singing, rooster, and the rush of clear water be easily heard.
Being in the Bedouin village feels like we’re in an atmosphere of ancient times. People still live in traditional values are strong, there is no touch of modern technology at all. If nightfall silence, quiet and dark come ambush. No glittering electric lights, only flicker of light coming from the kerosene lamp filled with coconut oil or castor oil with coconut fiber axis. In this village there was nothing but the sounds of nature with a gurgling water from the rocky river, the sound of birdsong and the rustle of the wind in the leaves. Air time clear, because people are prohibited from using products containing chemicals, such as soap, toothpaste and shampoo and prohibited from throwing garbage in the river. Bedouins to cleanse the body is always on time and wear traditional cleaning of leaves or sap of tree roots.
You can explore the lush forest and unspoiled scenery as the Bedouin loves nature so that maintained continuity. You can take pictures as long as you have not entered Baduy area. People outside the village of Baduy are more tolerant of technology.
Mingle with the locals remarkable is a very valuable thing. You can observe the body language gestures that directly can describe how they are very sensitive and friendly unpretentious.
Baduy area is located approximately 40 km from the city Rangkasbitung. Towards the region can use a private car or public transport approximately one hour from Rangkasbitung. To reach the Bedouin village can be reached through Rangkasbitung-Ciboleger, by bus, car public or private car. In this Ciboleger entrance to the Baduy region.
Hire a car and the car will stop in the village Cibolegar. You can also take the car from Rangkasbitung terminal Ciboleger or hire up to Cijahe, then forwarded by foot to get to the Inner Baduy villages.
From Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, using trains to Merak via Rangkasbitung will take about 1.5 hours. From Rangkasbitung, use a public transportation (called ELF by locals) to Ciboleger. The trip takes about 2.5 hours. Family statue in Ciboleger will welcome you. Follow the trail on foot. Enjoy views of the nature around you, then you will pass through the village of Gajeboh. Here you can see Baduy women weaving clothes. Continue by crossing Ciujung, the widest river in Baduy area. See the bridge made of bamboo tied to one another, but do not be afraid! The bridge is strong. You would then enter the village Cicakal. Here you can rest and spend the night. The journey on foot from Ciboleger to Cicakal will take about 2 hours.
Alternatively, you can use Koranji then passes through Market Tract. Every week, Baduy people visit this market to exchange their agricultural products with the goods they need. From this place they’ll move into the village of Cikapol.
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