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 Idul Adha merupakan hari raya umat islam yang kedua selain Idul Fitri. Momen tersebut menjadi salah satu yang memiliki ciri khas di nusantara.

Hari raya ini sebenarnya meneladani kisah nabi Ibrahim dan nabi Ismail dimana masyarakat muslim setiap hari raya Idul Adha akan melakukan penyembelihan hewan seperti sapi, kambing, domba, kerbau, dan unta.

Setiap daerah memiliki kegiatan dan aktifitas yang berbeda dalam mengisi Idul Adha. Tentu saja aktifitas tersebut berbeda dengan aktifitas sehari-hari.

Masyarakat Indonesia Menyambut Hari Raya Idul Adha

Indonesia merupakan negara yang majemuk, terdiri dari banyak pulau yang ditinggali oleh banyak suku. Pada saat Idul Adha, setiap tempat mempunyai tradisi yang berbeda.

Baca juga: Celebrate Ketupat

Satu suku dengan suku yang lain akan melakukan kegiatan yang berbeda. Jangankan suku, satu kampung dengan kampung yang lain dalam satu kabupaten saja bisa mengisi Idul Adha dengan kegiatan yang tidak sama

Sungguh indah fenomena tersebut. kemajemukan masyarkat menjadi daya tarik yang mengagumkan dalam menyambut datangnya hari raya Idul Adha.

Tradisi Yang Dilakukan Pada Saat Idul Adha

Tradisi merupakan kegiatan yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat pada saat hari H hingga terkadang tetap berlangsung sampai H+3 bahkan H+7.

Sangat beragam dan banyak jika dijabarkan. Dalam artikel ini akan membahas secara umum tradisi yang dilakukan kebanyakan orang pada saat hari raya Idul Adha.

1. Memasak sate. Beberapa orang lebih suka memasak menu sate bersama keluarga dan menyantapnya bersama pada saat malam hari ketika hari H Idul Adha. Namun kembali ke selera masing-masing.

Baca juga: Cemilan Homemade

2. Syukuran di beberapa rumah. Syukuran adalah berkumpul di sebuah rumah dan membaca doa atau tahlil, biasanya dilakukan H-2 atau H-1 sebelum Idul Adha. Pada saat pulang syukuran, orang-orang biasanya membawa nasi kotak yang diberi oleh pemilik rumah.

3. Kerja bakti. Orang-orang akan melakukan kerja bakti untuk mempersiapkan lokasi pemotongan hewan kurban untuk Idul Adha.Biasanya H-1sebelumnya akan ada bersih-bersih,pemasangan tenda, pembagian kupon, penyusunan panitia, dll

4. Pulang kampung. Beberapa perantau akan melakukan mudik ke kampung halaman untuk merayakan hari raya Idul Adha bersama keluarga tapi masih ramai suasana saat mudik Idul Fitri.

Hari raya Idul Adha sudah dekat, sudahkah kalian mempersiapkan segala sesuatu untuk menyambut atau bahkan melakukan beberapa tradisi di atas? Selamat merayakan Idul Adha, mohon maaf lahir dan batin ya!

 Celebrate Ketupat: Javanese Local Tradition

Celebrate Ketupat after seven days of Eid Al-Fitr, which is one of the local Javanese traditions. Actually, what is Ketupat? So, seven days after Eid Al Fitr, Javanese people make Ketupat and Lepet by using leaf namely Janur.

Ketupat is similar to rice cake. It is made from rice covered by leaves but the shapes are different. If rice cake is long, but Ketupat is square. How about Lepet? Lepet is covered by leaf and Javanese people fill the leaf with sticky rice mix grated coconut.

They are boiled for around 2 hours in the water until it's done. Lepet can be eaten directly but Ketupat eat together with soup in Java namely Lodeh and Kare. That was so delicious. Nobody can reject it. The picture at the bottom is Ketupat and Kare soup.

The soup consists of full seasoning water and some components like vegetables, tofu, meat or chicken, and shrimp crisp. Look at the display of Ketupat. How to make the cover of Ketupat is available on YouTube. There are so many tutorial videos about how to make Ketupat and Lepet by using Leaf.

How Javanese People Celebrate Ketupat

All people in Java make Ketupat and Lepet. Sometimes they will start in the morning and then finish the production of Ketupat and Lepet in the evening. The night is the time to share Ketupat and Lepet with neighbours and Family.

After the boiling process of Ketupat and Lepet finish. They put some in the plastic bag. For example, every plastic bag consists of three Lepet, two Ketupat, and a bowl of Lodeh. Then they will go to the home of some people like neighbours, cousins, grandfather, etc to give that plastic bag.

2. Bringing in the Mosque

The second way to celebrate Ketupat is also different from the first number. Javanese people can celebrate Ketupat by eating together their Ketupat and Lepet in the mosque. So, they bring what they make in the home to the mosque.

In the mosque, there will be activity before they eat Ketupat or Lepet together, there is a religious speech from a prominent figure in that area. After hearing the speech they pray and last they eat together the Ketupat and Lepet.

In the other mosque, they just collect the Ketupat and Lepet and then share them with their neighbour. So, they can go home and bring Ketupat and Lepet from other people. That was so interesting tradition, right? When there is someone cannot bring Ketupat or Lepet, they can bring other food like fruit or snacks to share.

3. Sitting in The Village Meeting Hall

The last way to celebrate Ketupat is the same as the previous but the differences are just the place. The second way is in the mosque, the last is in the Village Meeting Hall or the field.

Some Javanese people will celebrate Ketupat in a field by sitting together. Before they come, they collect their Ketupat and Lepet and then make it like a mountain. So that was so high. There will be prayer and speech and in the last activity, they will share the mountain of Ketupat and Lepet.

 Kebanyakan orang nih khusunya yang tinggal di pulau Jawa mereka kalau cari kerja udah pasti larinya ke Jakarta. Habis lulus sekolah, ngerantau ke Jakarta. Nganggur dikit, langsung mutusin buat ikut keluarga dagang di Jakarta. Orang-orang dari daerah luar Jakarta biasanya pas minggu-minggu awal pasti ngalamin yang namanya culture shock atau kaget sama kebiasaan orang di Jakarta, soalnya beda banget sama kebiasaan di kampung yang bakal bikin geleng-geleng heran.

1. Harga makanan mahal banget

Harga makanan di Jakarta tuh mahal banget, khusunya di wilayah Jakarta Selatan. Padahal nih keluar Jakarta dikit yang cuma di Depok atau Bogor kisaran harga makanannya jauh lebih murah daripada di Jakarta. Apalagi buat para pendatang dari daerah, bakal shock banget!. Contohnya nih pendatang dari Jogja biasa beli sarapan 7ribu udah kenyang perut, di Jakarta mana bisa guyss. Minim porsi sekali makan itu 25ribu.

2. Semua pada sibuk kerja, gak bakal punya tetangga buat ngerumpi

Kebiasaan dikampung ibu-ibu sering ngumpul buat ngobrol. Karena semua serba mahal dan jadi orang Jakarta tuh workaholic atau bisa dibilang pekerja keras. Di Jakarta nggak ada orang nganggur, kecuali udah tua banget. Bahkan yang udah tua aja kadang masih kerja. Jadi nggak bakal sempet buat ngerumpi sama tetangga. Hidup cuma buat pagi-sore kerja, malam tidur. Besoknya kerja lagi. Tiap hari bakal kayak gitu.

3. Kalau di jalan ngebut banget kayak balapan

Karena tipikal orang Jakarta yang kerja terus, jadi di jalan tuh bakal cepet-cepetan buat ngejar waktu. Ini jika kondisi jalan yang tidak macet ya guys. Kalau pendatang udah biasa naik motor sambil nyantai di kampung, di Jakarta bakal susah! bisa-bisa malah ditabrak dari belakang kalau nyetir sambil nyantai, eh jangan sampai ya. Jadi di Jakarta tuh orang buru-buru banget buat naik kendaraan. Kebanyakan di jalan buat kerja sama cari uang jadi nggak bisa tuh pelan-pelan nyetirnya. Kalau kitanya yang pelan bakal dapat klakson.

4. Banyak cewek pakek baju seksi kalau lagi jalan

Para pendatang awal datang ke Jakarta pasti kepo banget nih, pengen jalan keliling Jakarta. Nah biasanya di jalan mereka bakal nemu banyak cewek dengan pakaian rok mini bahkan tanktop. Padahal itu lagi di luar rumah. Beda banget sama di kampung soalnya kalau di kampung cewek pakek baju terbuka bakal jadi omongan orang guys, bahkan langsung ditegur. Kalau di Jakarta mah cuek-cuek aja, apa lagi kalau di jalan atau di mall ngelihat cewek pakai baju seksi itu udah jadi hal yang biasa banget.

5. Kebanyakan pakek mobil

Kalau di kampung, orang punya mobil tuh bisa jadi barang mewah dan kaya banget. Soalnya kebanyakan di kampung pakai sepeda ontel dan sepeda motor, cuma satu hingga tiga orang aja yang pakek mobil. Kalau di Jakarta beda. Pendatang bakal lihat kalau setiap orang bahkan rumah tuh ada mobilnya. Di Surabaya dan Jogja yang bermacet macet tuh sepeda motor sama truck, kalau di Jakarta sesek banget kebanyakan mobil yang bikin macet soalnya orang-orang Jakarta mayoritas pakek mobil.

Gimana, Jakarta keras banget kan? Yakin nih mau ngerantau ke Jakarta soalnya banyak banget culture shock yang bakal ditemui para pendatang awal nginjakin kaki di Jakarta Tapi santai aja ya, lama-lama bakal biasa kok ngelihat kebiasaan orang Jakarta yang beda sama di kampung.

 Javanese Culture Which Is Still Available In Lamongan

Javanese culture has characteristics that are different from those of other cultures. As we know Java Island is one of the islands with a population, they live in Java and are also separated in some places. Javanese people, especially older is always keep their culture alive.

Javanese culture is alive in some areas of Indonesia. Lamongan is one of the areas in Java which has its own Javanese culture. Many of them preserve the Javanese culture, and they act depending on the culture at a certain time. What are the cultures?

Lamongan and its Javanese culture

• Engagement process in Lamongan

This is one of the famous cultures in Lamongan. It is about the engagement process. Firstly, both of boy and girl's parents should come home. That is the so-called nyaweni, it is a general habit in Java for the engagement process. What is special in Lamongan? the girl's parents have to come first to the boy homes for the engagement process. This is different from other area which has the habit of boy parents coming first.

Javanese culture always makes the date of the wedding based on the date of birth of the bride. It happens also in Lamongan. Sometimes the engagement process is the time for discussing the date of marriage based on the date of birth of the bridge. Then they compare the date of born with the Javanese date. The picture above is the gift from the girl that was brought to the boy's home in the engagement process.

Just some people understand how to count. They are old Javanese and understand how to count. The younger Javanese cannot do that, that's why people will invite old Javanese to the engagement process because they understand about Javanese date.

• Boran Rice

Javanese culture influences the part of what they eat. That means the food. In Lamongan, there is a special local food namely boran rice. It cooked by using traditional ways and packaged in traditional ways.

The picture above is just the side dish for Boran rice. Boran rice is rice with many kinds of dishes like fish, chicken, egg, and special flavours. The flavour is red because it is made from onion, garlic, chilli, red pepper, candlenuts, and coconut. The complete flavour is secret based on the seller's story.

What makes it special besides the taste? the seller put the rice in a big place namely boran (which seems like plaited mats) and brought it to sell. They sell boran rice in the market, tourist places, four junctions and sidewalks.

People can find the seller of boran rice in 24 hours, so that's easy to find them in Lamongan, especially Lamongan City. They spread all over the place. So don't worry if you're hungry at the midnight.

Lamongan people usually eat boran rice on the sidewalk, they use a plate from the seller or just put the boran rice in plastic paper. The price minimally is around 10.000 rupiahs. It depends on what side dish you choose.