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You can try different types game tradition that has been passed down from time to time. If you pay attention, there are many game easy to do around us without having to buy or use materials.
For example, there are game hide and seek, gobak sodor, mold, and ruffled eyebrows. Games we also had time to develop thanks to the mixture of various cultures, such as the Dutch colonialism period, which brought game sports such as volleyball and football.
Quoting a book Checking Games Children of the Indies Age written by the Tempo Data and Analysis Center, Belgian artist Rudi Corens argues, it turns out that several game The traditional archipelago is also partly played in Europe.
However, that doesn’t mean game it arises because of colonialism or mixing, but it is already rooted in the community. That’s what makes Corens think, it’s difficult to trace the origin of the authenticity of a game, because of its universal nature.
For example, the lumping horse in the archipelago turned out to be played in England as a hobby horse, bridedingan–using a block of wood to direct the tire to roll–played in Holland with hoop walk, so -called catfish stakes pietelen, and the bekel is also in Belgium, although it doesn’t use a rubber ball the size of a ping pong ball that we know.
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Congklak or Dakon is a traditional game from among farmers, which is also popular among the Yogyakarta palace.
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“That used to be just play pewter which is played with the small bones of a lamb. But don’t use the ball. So the games in Java are more complete,” he said. Corens also established the Kolong Tangga Education and Toys Museum in Yogyakarta. Many of these games were recorded through paintings and records in Europe.
There are also games that came because of the arrival of Europeans to the archipelago. For example, such as halma–a board game that resembles chess with a collection of dots patterned on the Star of David, snakes and ladders, yoyo, or angklek which in Dutch is called sondah mondag.
According to Sukirman Dharmamulya, children’s toy researcher at the Center for the Study of History and Tradition Values in Yogyakarta, the phenomenon of the arrival of foreign toys did not only occur during colonialism, but also occurred in the era of the kingdoms in the archipelago.
Games outside the culture of the archipelago are recorded in the book Adiparwa written by Dharmawangsa Teguh from the Kingdom of Medang. In the book it is written about games played by Pandava and Kurawa children, such as scales.
There is also the Pandava Dadu written in the Sabha Parwa, which was brought from India. The Sukirman game is said to be played by the people of the archipelago, especially in Java.
A very special game from the archipelago is dakon. The game, which uses a board with 14 small niches and 2 large niches and the grain, originated among farmers.
Dakon was then quickly accepted by the court. “What’s more, there are a lot of sapodilla kecik in the palace (which can be used for dakon seeds),” he explained.
Because of his popularity, Dakon had become a family entertainer when Prince Dipanagara was guerrilla against the Dutch East Indies government. It was also accepted by the court that there was a dakon board used by Sultan Hamengkubuwono III, and Raden Ayu Mangkarawati. Sukirman was sure, during the colonial era, every house had a dakon.
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Finally, there’s a game that’s never been out of date, and underwent a drastic change in form: gunplay. It is not clear when this toy started. What is clear must have been there since humans have known guns for war, because children who play them are usually done together to imitate combat.
The simplest form is a pletokan or bamboo rifle. Citing page Jakarta.go.id, pletokan is a typical Betawi game, although the truth is still doubtful.
The game uses strong bamboo, then split between a shooter funnel and a shovel. For bullets, usually use grains, or small rolls of moistened paper.
As time went on, shootings that initially used bamboo developed into plastic toys sold in toy stores. The shape also follows the real firearms used in battle.
Now, shooting is being digitized through games. We can find many types, ranging from Counter Strike, Point Blank, FarCry on computers or specialized gaming devices such as PlayStation and Nintendo, up to Free Fire and PUBG on a smart phone.
In terms of form and history, shooting is also a game that knows no age. Because even up to adulthood, there are still those who play it as a hobby, even included as a type of competition.
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Babies with rag dolls were popularly played by children during the Dutch East Indies.
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Even before we knew dolls Barbie, Playing dolls has also been played for a long time. Corens as a collector of antique toys, revealed a large collection of Dutch dolls found in Indonesia. Dolls in the past were usually made of cloth and wood.
Dolls are usually used as ‘friends’ for children, or games that demonstrate life. Maybe if implemented in today’s digital era, the role of puppet dolls will begin to be eroded by social media or life simulation games like The Sims.
So, back to the topic, are you interested in trying to play traditional games again?
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