Category Archives: Budaya INDONESIA

Melemang Dance as an Indonesian Cultural Heritage from Bintan Island

Indonesia has a variety of traditional cultures and arts. The Directorate General of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture in the 2019 Cultural Statistics noted that there were 271 performing arts that were categorized as intangible cultural heritage. One of the intangible cultural heritages is the Melemang dance, a performing art from the […]

The Minahasa Stage House as a Global Traditional Indonesian Artwork

Around the area to Lake Linouw in Tomohon district, there are unique houses made of wood with almost uniform shapes and motifs. The brown houses and stilts do not appear to be inhabited by humans, although from the outside they look like new homes. Apparently the house on stilts was not for occupation but for […]

APA ITU ALIRAN KEPERCAYAAN KEJAWEN?

Pernahkah kamu mendengar aliran kepercayaan orang jawa yaitu KEJAWEN? Kejawen atau biasa dipanggil Kebatinan (Jawa: Kejawèn; Hanacaraka: ꧋ꦑꦼꦗꦮꦼꦟ꧀꧈; Pegon: كجاون) adalah sebuah kepercayaan yang terutama dianut di pulau Jawa oleh suku Jawa dan suku bangsa lainnya yang menetap di Jawa. Kejawen hakikatnya adalah suatu filsafat di mana keberadaanya ada sejak orang Jawa (Bahasa Jawa: Wong Jawa ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, Krama: Tiyang Jawi ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ) itu ada. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dari ajarannya yang universal dan […]