“Ngek, ngok, ngek, ngokkk,” the sound of the vegetable backing sounds from the distance, it is worth an alarm, the indigenous people rushed to bring their harvesting rice to be inserted into the leuit, which is the rice hull used by the indigenous people Sunda as a place to save the harvest.
In the mythology of Sunda people, padi itself is a rich titipan of Nyi Pohaci or Rice Dewi that gives life for all humans.
In order to investigate the padi indigenous people implement Seren Taun rituals or ceremonies of the year that was carried out in a period of once a year and carried out in Rayagung in the calendar of the indigenous Sunda community. The ceremony for the indigenous peoples of Sunda is a large hajatan as well as the silaturahmi event carried out after the harvest of the city’s terrace.
The indigenous people to harvest rice in Citorek, Lebak, Banten.
Masyarakat custom cooking equalra spice for preparation of Seren Taun traditions in Sindanglaya Village, Lebak, Banten.
The ritual depicts the feeling of gratitude in maintaining the nature and the wellbeing of the village to be a celebration of the inheritance that the terms of meaning, in the middle of the lush village landscape, asri makes Seren Taun apart from the identity of society.
Usually after the term harvest, the padi was disbursed in the lantayan or the place of the puppet for almost three weeks, continued with the congratulations followed reading the Pegon Sunda forced prayer at night.
The peak of the ritual Seren Taun, they surround the village while playing traditional musical instruments angklung buhun as a series of ritual Seren Taun.
The indigenous people read Pegon Sunda’s forcedra at night before the implementation of Seren Taun tradition in Sindanglaya Village, Lebak, Banten.
The indigenous people poses in front of the rice lantayan in Citorek, Lebak, Banten.
The community of Cisungsang will fall into the findings has made efforts to reach the sovereignty of local food by strengthening food production in the Kasepuhan region.
In fact, at 2024 Seren Taun Kasepuhan Cisungsang entered 110 Karisma Event Nusantara (KEN), a strategic program of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy.
Meanwhile, Citorek’s Kasepuhan and with cultural traditions that have created customary rules to strengthen the agraris culture so that family food resistance and community are preserved.
The indigenous people around the village while playing the angklung buhun music in the Seren Taun tradition series in the village of Sindanglaya, Lebak, Banten.
The indigenous community prepares the untu rice following the ritual Seren Taun in Cisungsang Village, Lebak, Banten.
As a community of agraris, the life of indigenous peoples of Citorek’s Treasury is very dependent on agricultural systems with rice power.
Each family head is both Citorek and Cisungsang Treasury has a leuit padi lumbung to be used as a food reserve up to tens of years forward.
The indigenous people who are obliged to the rules of realizing Lebak Regency to become a stable district of its food reserve. The activity of planting, harvesting, and processing of land, is carried out in conjunction with the direction of “colot line” as a custom leader who can know when time is appropriate to plant until harvesting.
The indigenous people carry rice harvest during ritual Seren Taun in Cisungsang Village, Lebak, Banten.
The number of sesajens and pocong rice are prepared for ritual Seren Taun in Cisungsang Village, Lebak, Banten.
Cisungsang’s Trimming, Eurih Sand Treasury in Sindanglaya Village and Citorek is part of the Kasepuhan Banten Kidul who still continues to hold the non-existible customs, namely farming.
Photo and text : Muhammad Bagus Khoirunas
The indigenous people carry rice harvest during ritual Seren Taun in Cisungsang Village, Lebak, Banten.
The indigenous people put padi into the leuit or lumbung padi when ritual Seren Taun in Cisungsang Village, Lebak, Banten.
The indigenous people put padi into the leuit or lumbung padi when ritual Seren Taun in Cisungsang Village, Lebak, Banten.
The indigenous people use two wheels across the front of the leuit in Citorek, Lebak, Banten.
Editor : Saptono
