Rengganis Top at Argopuro Mount

Including the mountain Argopuro hyang eastern mountain range that crosses the northern region of Probolinggo East Java until Banyuwangi. mountain Argopuro etymologically derived from the word meaning mountain and metered Puro which means a place of worship. Argopuro derived from the Javanese language. Ancient Javanese remains strong in the community around the foot of the mountain even though the religion of Islam has spread widely in eastern Java. Cult on the mountain is a form of homage to ancestors and nature conservation efforts through the religious system. Supposedly, the top is where funeral Argopuro Rengganis queen. One of the famous king in the old java.

True Sobriety   

People who perform the ritual at the mountain top, willing to walk with sufficient supplies. When he got on top they make offerings of money and ketupat. Diamond  rice (Ketupat) is rice wrapped in coconut leaves and has a shape in such a way. Diamond rice is a symbol of prosperity. Welfare can not be obtained from ourselves, but from respect for the universe.

Money for God

Diamond Rice (Katupat)

As Spectactor I was interested in Photography only for "sentimental" reason, We wanted to explore it not as a question (a theme) but as a wound:
I See
I feel
Hence I Notice
I Observe
I Think

Of Course we could make out in photography, in a very orthodox manner, a whole network of essences, material essences (necessitating the physical, chemical,optical study of the photography), and regional essences deriving, for instance, from aesthetics, from his story, from sociology.
source: Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes (1981:21).

Lontar palm or fan palm is a palm tree that can endure long dry periods and grows very slowly. This tree flowers twice a year, once at the beginning of the dry season and once at the beginning of the wet. It's only climbed in the dry because the trunk is too slippery otherwise. Once it produces a juice, it remains productive for 70-100 years, producing an average of 600 liters of juice a year. Besides palm juice (tuak) and syrup (gula aren) for alcoholic drinks and sweetening, this palm also provides raw materials for making many everyday articles. Its large fan-shaped leaves are used in roofing, to make baskets, water buckets, sleeping mats, hats, footwear, musical instruments (Sasando Rote), bags and cases for sirih. Leaf stalks 1-1,5 m long are used to make fences and leaf stalk fibers are utilized to make harnesses and strings. Trunks are used for house and bridge building, horse stalls, cowsheds and pig sties. 

Lontar Literature

Java has a rich literature mostly in the form of old legends incribed on lontar (palm leaf) documents, themselves small master pieces of the engraver's art. These little books record old Indonesian myths, history, and hindu epics of Rama and Sita. They have been made out of this palm leaf for centuries, the text and illustrations engraved with a fine stylus and then darkened by rubbing the soot of burned palm-leaf spines into the groves. Then the individual palm leaves are cut into strips and sandwiched between pieces of ornamental wood. These inch wide "book" fit neatly into narrow wooden boxes carved and decorated with animal head or made completely in the shape of animals. Each box hold several books, a 'volume'. This whole procedure is still used by lontar copyists today. It's thought that the curlique appearance of many ancient Asian scripts came about because scribes were forced to inscribe straight lines on the ribbed surface of lontar palm strips so as not to split them. 

Kerapan Sapi Races: The World kerapan sapi stems from an old Madurese word 'to work the soil'. The idea caught on from racing plowing teams. Like something out of Ben Hur, these thriling high speed spectacles of sleek racing bulls are held during the dry season at the time of the annual harvests, Aug-October.
The first rounds are small friendly village events (Kerapan Desa) with no requirements about the size and strenght of the bulls, or the skill of the handiers. These Elimination trials could run for months. Next are the subdistrict races held under government supervision. For these, the bulls are fed special foods like raw eggs (up to 50 a day), honey, medicinal herbs and beer. The winner may take part in the district races and then, if he wins, becomes eligible for more important regency races (Kerapan Kabupaten). The first races usually begin in April and the runoffs in May. Then comes the Grand Final (Kerapan Besar), this great fair is held in the town squere of the island's capital. Pamekasan. During the week prior to Kerapan Besar, Traditional games, ceremonies, parades of decorated bulls gamelan orchestras and nigth bazaars take place in all of the provincial towns. The night before the big race cattle raisers choose their best bulls and sing them to sleep. The next morning these animals are bathed, bushed, dand tenderly massaged. Their goat get like shiny burnished copper. Magificently adorned with ornaments, flowers, ribbons, and elaborate headresses, they are paraded throught the town under ceremonial parasols to the accompaniment of drums , gongs, flutes dan bells.There are often up to 200 participants. Around 9 or 10 am the field is cleared and a signal given for the first race to start. The bulls look heavy and awkward, but watch. On the glassy strightaway, 24 pairs of bulls are matched up. Ornament is then stripped off the bulls and they're lined up with their brightly dressed jockeys. Each is given a huge tot of rum from a bamboo tube. Gamelan music is played to excite the bulls. A 3-man judging panel takes its place. Dead silence before the race begins. Then the starters drops his flag and teams charge forward, the riders straddling skids slung between two yoked bulls, the rear of the skid trailing along the ground. Jockeys prod bulls with wooden sticks or flog them mercilessly with thorns and spiked rods. They can cover 100 m in 9 second flat, faster than the world's track record. Animals win by getting front legs, not noses or heads, across the line first. The triumphal team then parades around the stadium. After, the bulls are rubbed down and soothed to quiet gamelan. Those with the finest performances are used as stud. The owners of the winning bulls are held in quite high esteem in their villages. (Dalton,1978:175)