from my land where I stand to the global wold

(17 Desember 2009) For the Javanese people, Suro is very special day. Suro is a new day for the Javanese calendar system according to the lunar system and Moslem Calendar System. As usual to celebrate the New Year day, there many unique ceremonial held. Mostly Javanese people will do ‘Tirakat’ an all along night staid awake without sleep. Of course, there many activity to fill this ‘Tirakat’ time, from performing ‘puppet show’, praying ‘sholawat’, visit a sacred place, etc. There is also common tradition for Javanese people to cleaning up their traditional weapon, horse, special pet (usually bird), and any other special thinks. This tradition called Djamasan, used sacred water with a packet of flowers and mystique oil. Instead of the tradition, recently for many Javanese people doing Djamasan is just a common life style. Even, there still remain the motif of doing this ceremonial to obtain symbolic meanings as cleaning up both physically and spiritually to prepare for this new y...