8,000 Children Will Enliven Sundanese Culture at the Bandung Ulin Festival
The swift currents of globalization make culture in Indonesia increasingly blurry from the view of the younger generation. Sundanese culture is no exception, which has also begun to fade in the minds of children.
In fact, pencak silat and angklung have been recorded by UNESCO as intangible cultural wealth belonging to the Sundanese people.
While the Kaulinan barudak is a hereditary cultural heritage that contains various "kasundaan" philosophies that are so sublime.
In order to revive Sundanese culture, the Education Office (Disdik) held the Bandung Ulin Festival at SOR Arcamanik, Thursday, November 3, 2022.
With the theme "Ngamumule Sundanese Culture", as many as 8,000 children from elementary and junior high school levels were involved to directly play while learning some Sundanese culture, such as pencak silat, angklung, and old children's games.
The Bandung Ulin Festival will take place from 08.00-15.40 WIB. The first performance was the Colossal Pencak Silat.
Every elementary and junior high school in Bandung city sent 10 students representatives to participate in this activity. The participants and assistants were introduced to pangsi (silat) clothing and belts.
On this occasion, Disdik will also launch pencak silat and angklung as mandatory local content in all elementary schools in Bandung.
After that, at around 09.10 WIB, there will be a colossal angklung performance which is also attended by at least 10 people from each school.
The songs that will be played include Halo-Halo Bandung, Manuk Dadali, and Mojang Priangan. The clothes used in this session are Sundanese traditional clothes. Men use pangsi and women wear white kebaya.
Not only that, there is also a colossal Nang Neng Nong whose movements will be followed by all participants. The demonstration team consisted of 120 students and teachers from SDN 035 Soka.
The big event is the breaking of the records of the slave kaulinan, such as cingkiripit, surser, and jengkol perepet which will start at 09.55 WIB.
This record-breaking involved 10 students from each school who had been trained to perform the three games.
In addition to the record-breaking category, new Kaulinan performances will also be present in the entertainment/festival category. Each school sends 10 students to play the kaulinan according to the zone grouping.
Zone A played sondah, Zone B played oray-orayan, Zone C played sapintrong, Zone D played congklak, Zone E played take-away, Zone F played hayam careuh, Zone G played ciwit lutung, and Zone H played tong mali/sepdur.
After that, entertainment in the form of Sundanese culture and art will also enliven the Bandung Ulin Festival.
It is hoped that through this festival, children can get to know the culture and philosophy of the barudak kaulinan. Then, able to strengthen character education based on local wisdom. As well as being able to maintain and preserve Sundanese cultural heritage. (din)**
Head of the Bandung City Communication and Information Technology
Yayan A. Brilyana
