Javanese traditional games
-
Upload
yosef-susetya -
Category
Education
-
view
417 -
download
5
Transcript of Javanese traditional games
JAVANESE TRADITIONAL
GAMES
YOSEF BUDI SUSETYA
QUO VADIS?
PROBLEM
Javanese traditional games (dolanan Jawa)
for kids such as Jamuran, Cublak-cublak
Suweng, Blarak-blarak Sempal, Gajah
Telena, Udan Barat, etc will no longer exist in
Java.
PROBLEM
Kids traditional games (dolananJawa) will only be an artifact .
Many people don’t realize this sad facts.
Many of us think that it is not important and interesting.
FACTS
A very fast technology development
make the kids don’t need to play
with other friends.
FACTS
Mobile phone, television and other electronic gadgets make
almost all kids don’t have enough chances to play with
others.
FACTS
Most modern
technology
can fulfill our
needs to
play with our
imagination.
FACTS
Physical
meeting in
modern era is
no longer
considered
important
because it can
be replaced by
SMS, telephone
, etc.
FACTS
Many kids are lazy to move and
some of them don’t want to go to
school because they become “game
addict”.
TRADITIONAL GAMES IN
HISTORY
Togetherness
is very
important for
kids in the
past.
TRADITIONAL GAMES IN
HISTORY
For playing and
having fun they
needed other kids
as in life we need
other people.
Togetherness and
hand in hand to
help are the values
of the traditional
games.
TRADITIONAL GAMES IN
HISTORY
Traditional
games form a
strong bond
of friendship
and
relationship.
TRADITIONAL GAMES IN
HISTORY
Dolanan anak
also need very
intensive
physical
meeting to
others.
TRADITIONAL GAMES IN
HISTORY
The existence
of people in a
real life can’t be
replaced merely
by
pictures, senten
ces or voices.
VALUES OF TRADITIONAL
GAMES
FIRST VALUE
Games that imitate what their
parents do, such as
trading, marriage, visiting, making
house from stone and sand, making
dolls clothes from fabric and
paper, and making puppet from
leaves or grass. It helped them to
experience real life skills.
SECOND VALUE
Games to enhance
their skills and
physical
strengths, for
example tag
game, crawling, wrestli
ng, engklek
(picture), gobak
sodor, gobak
bunder, bengkat, bent
THIRD VALUE
Games to train our
five senses.
In this games, kids
practice to touch
something using
hands, to count, to
estimate the
distance, to sharpen
our sight and listening
skills and to draw.
For example:
gatheng, dakon(picture), macanan, sum
bar-suru, sumbar-manuk, sumbar-dulit, kubuk, adu-
kecik, adu-kemiri, main
kelereng, jirak, bengkat, pathon, dekepa
n, drawing in the sand, petak
umpet, bayang-bayangan, and
FOURTH VALUE
Conversation games to exercise language and thinking skills.
Kids togetherness is always followed by
conversation to each other about myth or
legend story, experiences story, or riddle that
stimulate their imagination.
The riddle is not only an ordinary
questions, such as pitik-walik saba kebonand pong-pong bolong. Sometimes the riddle is
created from their own imagination.
FIFTH VALUE
Games using
songs.
For example: jamuran, cublak-cublak suweng
(picture), bibi tumbastimun, manuk-manuk
dipanah, tokung-tokung, blarak-blarak
sempal, demplo, bang-bang-tut, pung-
irung, bethu-
CONCLUSION
Traditional games have so many
valuable substances for
kids’ physical, social and emotional development.
So, we need to preserve it well for our next generation
in the future.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hermanu, 2012, Ilir-ilir: Ilustrasi Tembang
Dolanan, Yogyakarta: Bentara Budaya.
Overbeck., H., 1938, Javaansche
Meissjespelen en Kinderlidjes, Java
Instituut Jogjakarta.