Buleleng Northern Lights

Banyuning:
A Center of Buleleng’s Traditional Games

Children of Kelurahan Banyuning, Buleleng Sub-Regency and Regency, have had the privilege of performing old-age traditional games so far preserved due to their merit by playing them up to now on the occasion of odalan ceremony at the local Pura Pemayun on Buda Kliwon Ugu. Even the PKB Bali’s Annual Arts Festival prefers to always invite the children living on the eastern rim of Singaraja, the capital city of Buleleng Regency, in order to show not less than 10 games. Wayan Sujana Jedur has stood behind the children leading them in the game development.

Among the games selected for shows are fake horse riding (jaran-jaranan), attorney (jaksa-jaksaan), sliding (slodor-slodoran), naga balon (inflated dragon), guessing (tebak-tebakan), and searching (alih-alihan). The most popular in the eyes of Buleleng’s children is the jaran-jaranan, played by two opposing groups of children. Each group consists of three members, divided respectively into two horses and drivers sitting on both horses’ backs. The opposing drivers fight by pressing, mocking and elbowing each other with the goal of knocking down one’s enemy to win the contest.
Mr. Jedur has established a sanggar group, known as Sanggar Gelitik of Banyuning, etymologically meaning ‘ever active and creative association’, for the sake of preserving and developing the games by way of collecting data on associated children and training them towards perfection. (BTN/bll)