"NECKLACE ... necklace ... necklace," said a long-haired girl ran to greet visitors in Sade Village, Village Rambitan, Sub Pujut, Central Lombok District.


Dark-skinned little girl was selling beads wrapped around his left arm. While his right hand held out some necklaces and bracelets to visitors who want to look directly Dusun Sade existence.

People living in the village are all Sasak tribe. They are still holding fast to traditional customs. In fact, a typical traditional Sasak houses are also still standing strong and maintained in this area.

Sasak tribe is indigenous and the majority on the island of Lombok, NTB. It is said that the culture of people recorded in the book of essays Nagara Kartha Gama from Majapahit. In the book, Sasak tribe called Mirah Lomboq Sak Sak-Adhi.

Not difficult to reach this location. You only need a travel time of about an hour from the city of Mataram. "Welcome, this is the original village Dusun Sade Sasak tribe," said local guide to press tour party arrived in the East Java Provincial Government of Sade village at the end of last November 2009.

The man who named Piladjoe carry around in the village group Sade. To surround the village, visitors must pass through the rocky path that is neat and clean. Occasionally be seen mother a housewife was spinning yarns in the front yard of each. Or will be seen also the mothers are displaying a variety of souvenirs such as necklaces or bracelets at the door of the house, for sale to visitors or tourists.

Dusun indigenous settlements entered Sade, odor offensive. Some participants of the group could close his nose. Piladjoe explain at least 150 heads of households (families), the livelihoods of farming and weaving and making beads for sale in front of their house. "Their house is made of "tai kebo" (buffalo dirt)," said Piladjoe like to explain the causes of bad smell.

Sasak tribal custom house made of straw and bamboo-walled (gedhek). Floor of clay and buffalo dirt mixed with straw ash. Mixture of clay and buffalo dung to harden the ground floor, as hard as cement. How to create a floor like that was inherited from their ancestors.

Although the smell of buffalo dirt, Sasak tribe custom house, if the note is built based on aesthetic values and local wisdom. Sasak people familiar with some types of traditional buildings into housing and also the traditional rituals and religious rituals.

Each house barn Sasak tribe, Piladjoe light, ranging from the building foundation, walls, floors covered with floor all buffalo dirt once a week. This is a local of local wisdom, to respect the buffalo used daily plowing equipment.

Also, added Piladjoe, Sasak tribe door deliberately short, so that people or visitors who enter the house, bent or bowed. "It's a symbol of respect for his host," said Piladjoe.

Piladjoe words, every week the Sasak tribe, cleaning the house with buffalo dirt. Even to wash a floor that is made from a mixture of clay and buffalo dirt, also use buffalo dung is.

Piladjoe also add all forms of sasak same building, only has 2 rooms, where the birth and for a girl's room. Location of the girl child's room into one with the kitchen. And there was the barn as a place of rice storage. For Sasak tribe, only women are allowed to take rice from the barn.

"Because the woman believed to regulate and smart saving," he explained.

As for saving the crops, building a barn Sasak tribe. Typically, three or four heads of families to build a rice granary used together. Granary building was constructed specially made with high-three or four meters. "To take rice, they make a bamboo ladder making it easy to retrieve or store their crop," Well said.

In addition, traditional Sasak house than as a shelter and gathering of family members is also a place sacred rituals as a manifestation of faith in God, ancestral spirits, house spirits and so forth. "If anyone wants to build a modern house should be moved from the village Sasak," said Piladjoe.

translate from Surabaya post