civilization of Java boasts elaborate artistic traditional architecture, the test benches of time. But people often forget that Java is not only home to the Javanese and Sundanese. One of these lesser-known ethnic groups is the Osing of Banyuwangi.
After a temple-hopping trip through Java, I landed in Banyuwangi my last stop on the eastern end of Java up to the narrow street crossing to Bali. Of course, one of the first things I asked locals, when I arrived the architecture was. After learning that the so-called "Desa Wisata Osing" I was so excited to visit was neither desa (village), nor a place for wisata (tourist attraction), yet it has something particularly Osing, the hotel manager a few blocks away on a strange door.
I ended up in Sanggar Genjah Arum, a 4000 square meter plot, the centuries-old showcased knocking outdoors told me Show osing houses in the middle of a lush garden. Soft bamboo angklung music from the top of a tall bamboo tower played at the entrance of which a 360 ° view of the surrounding rice fields, coffee plantations and the village is visible.
The property owner, Setiawan "Ivan" Subekti is, since 1997 gathers Osing houses, to save them sold by about Balinese craftsmen who would take them apart and they recycle in luxury furniture for the export market.
Ivan a coffee plantation owners and an internationally recognized Coffee Tasters, he continually welcomed coffee lovers in his house. One of the striking features of the property is a stylish cafe bar decorated with traditional ornaments Osing as Gandrung and barong .
"These houses are made of wood and benda three to five generations old," said Ivan. Benda ( Artocarpus elasticus ), also known as Terap or Brazilian rubber, native to the western half of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Banyuwangi used benda forests to be. Benda wood can remain intact for over 100 years, up to 45 meters in ideal Wild grow (or generally up to nine meters in Java) does not easily break or bend, and naturally repels termites. Timbre be used for the construction of houses traditionally harvested a year in advance by ripping the tree trunk for sap and leaves slowly bleeding to death. This process makes the wood extremely robust.
Typically, the house is divided into three sections :. The porch, the bedroom and the kitchen. The stem is typically used as an outdoor living room where guests are entertained and held joint discussions. The bedroom is in the walls of woven bamboo called gedhék Pipil traditionally included. You do not need window, as the wall of the warp and weft threads, so that the air for ventilation to penetrate. Alternatively Ivan also changes some of its houses with ornate wooden walls.
traceable Originating in the Majapahit era, Osing architecture and design blends seamlessly Javanese, Balinese, Chinese, Islamic, Hindu Buddhist and pagan elements in a lively but graceful look. Timbul, an elder of Kemiren, explained that the Osing house and its ornaments are loaded with Osing philosophy of marriage and family
"There are different types of Osing houses :. The double roof cerocogan , the triple roof baresan and fourfold roof tikelbalung . the cerocogan is usually built for young men and women in their late teens. at that time, tertiary education under the Osing was not very common, as young men and women would fall in love and get married, "Timbul said.
"The baresan symbolizes conflict and temptations after the wedding. Happiness is not automatically in a marriage because the spouses to work it out and resolve to get through whatever trials come their way. and when they do it, they have children and later grandchildren. This is their home fully what the tikelbalung is all about, "the elder continued.
The Osing are descendants of citizens of Blambangan, one from the 13th to 18th century Hindu kingdom, which survived the great Majapahit Empire and long resisted the Dutch East India Company. During this time, the spread of Islam and the struggle for colonial and local royal forces in Java Hindus drove east to migrate to Bali, so make Blambangan (now Banyuwangi) a buffer zone.
After Timbul when the Dutch to protect invaded in the 18th century Blambangan from the Hindu Balinese who conspired to clean Nusantara ethnic groups today. The Dutch would ask their targets before they check to attack if they were Balinese, to which the target would answer ". O sing ... ngelawan sing " ( "Oh, no ... I not fight you. ")
Dutch release any person who answered this and assumed that they belong to a previously unknown strain that" these people could be Javanese Osing "-Where indeed called, Balinese , Madurese, or anything else. The "Osing" has been identified as a people since, converted to Islam in particular, and a clear message both Javanese and Balinese related.
Perhaps it is because of this conscious decision, that harmony will unite a crucial concept in the Osing home. A roof obliquely downward symbolizes humility and courtesy in Osing society. Bamboo or wooden walls symbolize modesty and simplicity. The Semanggi (Klee) Ornament symbolizes peace and happiness in a well-fed budget. The selimpetan (sunflower with Swastika) symbolizes the infinite love of a man and a woman. The Kawung symbolizes loyalty and satisfaction in a spouse for life. And the sun symbolizes light hopes, warmth and joy in the household.
Other things in Ivan are to enjoy at home sites of the neighbors the rice fields with a pair of Balinese cattle, demonstrations of plantain fiber fabric weaving plowing, vintage collection of coffee roasting and brewing equipment of Ivan and naturally rare mixtures of Ivan the coffee taste and tea while listening to his collection of jazz records. If you are lucky, you can be the other friends in the company of Ivan, many of them are Banyuwangi resident artists who like to share a local perspective on their history and culture.
Sanggar Genjah Arum (home Setiawan Subekti)
Desa Kemiren
Kecamatan Glagah
Banyuwangi
East Java
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