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On Seba Tradition

Seba is Sundanese word which means to dedicate. It also means to give some amount of your belonging to whom is in power, usually who govern your land. When kings governed Java, villagers practiced Seba to the bupati (regent) as a king’s representation in a region. These practices are things…

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Arca Domas, beyond its mystical heredity

The story of “Arca Domas” will remain as a mystery veiled in the thick jungles of Kendeng by Myths of the Baduy. No outsider will enter the sanctuary. Only Indonesian permitted by Pu’un, the Baduy top leader, may visit the sacred palace. When you are visiting the Baduy Village, leave…

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Music of the Baduy

Aspects of Baduy Music by WIM VAN ZANTEN The Baduy within Sundanese and Indonesian societies In some sense, the Baduy partially represent the Sundanese past in the present time. There used to be more of these isolated communities in West Java, but the Baduy are the only ones to survive…

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Enviromental Awareness of the Baduy

Economic growth, viewed from the point of view of economics, physics, chemistry and technology has no discernible limit, must necessarily run into decisive bottlenecks when viewed from the point of view of environmental sciences. An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single minded pursuit of wealth — in…

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The Baduy’s Winter in Paris

When I decided to Explore Europe, the first city I would like to visit was London. I fancied how the city of English, the language of wich I have been learning since my childhood as a second language. So I browsed the internet to seek hotel in London where I…

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