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 (dolanan Jawa) 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,

sentences 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, wrestling,

engklek (picture), gobak sodor, gobak bunder,

bengkat, benthik-uncal, jethungan,

etc.

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, sumbar-suru, sumbar-manuk, sumbar-dulit, kubuk,

adu-kecik, adu-kemiri, main kelereng,

jirak, bengkat, pathon, dekepan,

drawing in the sand, petak umpet,

bayang-bayangan, and serang-serangan.

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

kebon and 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 tumbas timun, manuk-manuk dipanah, tokung-tokung, blarak-blarak sempal, demplo, bang-bang-tut, pung-irung, bethu-thonthong, kidang-talun, and ilir-

ilir.

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.