to finally visit the chance Bajawa, Flores, I noticed, "Jawa" behalf. When I finally had the chance to visit famous Bajawa traditional homes in Bena, I learned that this was not an accident
Despite my first impression, I did not immediately make the connection. The traditional houses of Bena do some physical resemblance to the Javanese Joglo wear , but they are also very different.
Original Pati-north coast village in Central Java ancestors sailed Bena 1050 years ago to Flores. Your ship was stranded on the southern coast of central Flores, and his deck was the neighborhood of Bena. Descending down towards Bena, you can see the traditional houses in a pair of curves in the shape of a ship's deck.
The neighborhood of Bena is named after one of its seven founding fathers strung from Java. Through the practice of ancestor of polygyny, traces the people of Bena common ancestor with humans of Maubena, Likowali, Benaliwo and Watujaji. leave men their parents homes to live with their wives' first family and if the first wife gives her consent, to spend time in the homes of his other women as well.
There are 45 traditional houses in Bena, six belong to each of the nine clans who live there. Made of wooden walls, thatched roofs and bamboo floors, these houses say much about the local concepts of gender, on which civilization rests.
In the space between the two curvy rows of houses there are roof-shaped male altars called ngadu and female altars called Bagha , which increased with drawers in the middle like miniature Houses look.
Watunabe is believed to have built since approximately 1050 of the giant Dakhe. The dolmen that resembles the table, is the origin of the name Ba-Jawa plate from Java.
ritual participation ngadu and Bagha are of a woman who carried out the household. The pole is used for bind ngadu cattle. The rope, pe'u , symbolizing children from the man and the women's association was born, to tie them together forever.
to marry a woman in Bena, man must conduct a three commit -Year premarital service to his father-in-law to be, then present an offering of coconuts, chicken, betel leaves and areca nuts to his wife to be that family. If they accept the proposal, the woman's family, a pig and hosts slaughters a festival called Zeza . Then they welcome the groom by him in the middle of the house on an altar seat, and he is officially a man.
While most residents of Bena today converted to Catholicism, submitted the Zeza wedding and ngadu-Bagha rituals of pre-Christian practice ujukuwi , In the local language Ngada, ujukuwi refers to both an offer of prayer, and the name of faith. The followers of ujukuwi worship a "Heavenly Father" called Nitu Gale and raises prayers to him by a personification of "Mother Earth".
Pak Kasmir, a local elder who told me a guide small fee. "The people are to generalize such natural religions as animism generally, but I refuse Ujukuwi to be designated as such there were many generations reached here before Catholicism Flores, we have known God and prayed to him. "Pak Kasmir claims to have studied Islamic studies, and lived in Java for 50 years with his wife, a native of Purworejo.
Tradition has it that Bena was first built by a giant named Dakhe, the magical rocks from the nearby mountain Inerie contributed to build the famous Neolithic altar watunabe in the center of the village. Among dozens of standing stones is a large dolmens about a table with a circular basin is similar in the middle like a cup holder on the folding table of an aircraft seat.
"It is on this Dolmen, we lift up our ujukuwi to our ancestors This is where the name Bajawa comes. It means" plate of Java ' "Pak Kasmir said
Dakhe was believed a man of great strength .. "He is a bit like Goliath. But I think Goliath must have been smaller because David as easily killed him with a stone. You can not do that to Dakhe. If Dakhe fish wants, he goes into the sea. He grabs shark's tail and bangs it. Enter the rock that had this watunabe for him a breeze made "Pak Kasmir.
said We then visited a traditional house." The traditional house of Bena has three floors. But the people of Java often incorrectly understood this: it is no more than three stories high, but three stories inside, "said Pak Kasmir
The southern end of Bena, outlooking hill on the south coast of Flores and. the Savu sea
is the first floor, the outdoor wooden terrace, where residents daily activities, such as weaving and woodworking, and flaunt their wealth in the form of bull horns and pig tusks perform from previous celebration ceremonies. the second floor is the multi-purpose central room where the family sleeps at night and where the mataraga altar. Behind the altar is a small to third floor sliding door, where you have to kneel and bow. the third and interior floor of the house there is a kitchen with a traditional wood stove.
is a good time to visit Bena to 27 during Reba celebrations of December. Reba, which is traditionally celebrated on 15 December, is the Ngada new year. But since 15 December with the Catholic commitments to pre-Christmas Advent, Reba celebrations are now displaced, would interfere until after Christmas, and shortly before the Christian New Year.
I have my visit in Bena through the southern end of climbing the neighborhood where a small shrine to the Virgin Mary looked on the rolling hills of Surelaki. Deep shades of blue nature allowed to question me, where the sky ends and the earth begins. Since the soft, quiet breeze playing with my hair, I say with pictures of old Javanese sailors Bena goodbye and giant move mountains, a large settlement whose legacy foundation lasted a millennium.
Fast Facts
Country: Indonesia
Province: Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT)
Largest city: Kupang (capital of NTT, Timor island)
land area: 566 islands, 47,349.9 km 2
Highest point: Flores: Ranakah - 2,350 meters above sea level
population: NTT - 4899260 (BPS 2012 estimate)
How to get there .: Daily flights to the end of Kupang, Surabaya, and Denpasar, the 4-5 hour drive from end to Bajawa
Alternatively fly from Bali to Labuan Bajo (8 -9 hours drive) or Maumere (7-8 hours drive)
[] What to bring 19,459,007th hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, polite clothing (covered knees and shoulders), camera, cash for fees and entry management, cigarettes local men to offer (especially when photographed).
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