Monday, October 26, 2009

Betawi's Topeng Blantek Shows in My Village

The picture above shows the Topeng Blantek theater performed in the road junction in my village. Topeng Blantek is a traditional theater of Betawi. The theater tells the story about the daily life of Betawi people with social critique in a comedian style. The Betawi people usually invite the Topeng Blantek group to perform in their home when they have wedding reception or circumcision thanksgiving party in the Betawi village. On the last Sunday 15 October 2009, the Fajar Ibnu Sena Topeng Blantek performed in my village (home ). This is to celebrate the establishmnet of my village to become kampoeng agrowisata.


The picture above shows a hot but funny dialog of the actor and actress with Betawi dialect.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

My Village Become Kampoeng Agrowisata

I live in a suburban of South Jakarta called Pasanggrahan. My village or Kampoeng is in Rukun Warga 06 of Pasanggrahan. On last Sunday 25 October 2009, my village was established as Kampoeng Agrowisata. It was established so, since the local citizen ,by its own initiative, has succefully greened the village with plantation. Every house in the Kampoeng plant the fruit in its yard. Then the wild birds and bees make their nest in many citizen houses and the big plantation. Every morning the wild birds sings like in a real small village.


I planted Srikaya fruit, mango and many other plantation. I fulled my yard and house with plantataion. The environment in my Kampoeng become cool and friendly.




The above picture shows the main entrance gate during the Kampoeng Agrowisata Pesanggrahan establishment. This is the Jalan Nuri entrance with ondel-ondel on both side of the entrance. Ondel-ondel is traditional gigantic puppet of Betawi.


The establishment was done by the Jakarta Selatan Master . Now, Jakarta Selatan has three places for showcase of green urban environment to show to foreigner.