Bawean Tourism

Bawean island is a small island located in the Java Sea, about 2 mill north of the island Java. Administratively, Bawean island became part of the district of Gresik, East Java Province. Bawean is composed of two sub-districts and districts Sangkapura Pond.Population of about 70,000 people, mostly have a livelihood as fishermen or farmers as well as a migrant worker in Malaysia and Singapore. Majority of the population is ethnic tribe Bawean Bawean, followed by the Javanese, Madurese and other ethnic groups such as Bugis and Mandailing.
Everyday language is the language Bawean Bawean community. Madurese language which is not as understood by people outside Bawean far. Madura own nation is a nation of immigrants on the islands Bawean. In Malaysia and Singapore, the mention of this tribe became Boyan. They called themselves the Boyan, meaning the Bawean.Bawean word derived from Sanskrit, meaning there is sunlight. According to legend, in about 1350, a group of sailors from the Majapahit kingdom caught in a storm in the Java Sea and finally stranded on the island at sunrise Bawean. Beginning of the 16th century, Islam entered into Bawean brought by Maulana Umar Mas'ud. His grave to this day remains a destination of religious tourism as from outside Bawean. Mas'ud was in the tomb of Umar Sangkapura region located on the southern coast of the island. Being on the north coast, exactly in the village cemetery Diponggo there a woman scholar of Islam spreading in the area, his name Waliyah Zainab.Bawean island diameter is approximately 12 kilometers and the road that circles the island is approximately 70km in length and can be reached within 1-2 hours. Bawean has a fairly attractive tourism objects, especially the beaches. There is also a lake that is located right in the middle of the island named Lake Kastoba. Some small island ("dyke") is not less interesting to visit. Bawean Muslim majority population, while non-Muslim population is usually the newcomers. Bawean is typical of the onyx stone. A kind of marble. This stone is also used as decoration and flooring. There was also a "red fruit". This is different from the original red fruit papua. The shape is round like an apple.But nothing like this in Magetan but the color is slightly yellow.In Bawean deer species are only found (endemic) in Bawean, the Axis kuhli. Also on the island of Bawean also planted mangosteen, bark, red fruit, and durian for local consumption. Dozens of species of marine fish are also found on the coast of this island.
and several tourist attractions include :
A. Mayangkara Beach
Mayangkara beach is a tourist beach resort enjoyed by travelers. Currently have a position Mayangkara beach setrategis, but close to a religious tourist beach locationMayangkara Waliyah Zainab is also very close to the field plane (Village Tajungori).White sand that adorn the coastline and the waves are not too large (north coast) to his own appeal for visitors.




B. Laccar Waterfall
Waterfall tourism object is located in the village of Leaf Laccar Sangkapura District.Access to the site of the waterfall is quite easy because of the Leaf village roads to thevillage is paved Laccar. Distance from the waterfall outside the Leaf village of about onekilo meter. Waterfall is the highest waterfall in Bawean. Source water from a waterfall are also distributed to homes around the site. Tourism is very crowded in the school holidaysand widths.


C. Kastoba Lake
Kastoba lake is the only tourist attraction on the island of Bawean lake. Proper positionin the middle of the island Bawean be unique to this lake. Location in the village of LakeKastoba Paromaan, where access to the lake Kastoba good enough. Visitors can use amotorcycle or car. At a distance of approximately 500 meters of visitors have to walk to get to the lake area Kastoba. The water is crystal clear lakes and lush trees are the main attraction for visitors to Lake Kastoba always dating, besides billion interesting mystery Kastoba owned by the lake.



D. Noko Island
Noko sights of the island right on the east side of the island Selayar. To get to the location of the tourists have to use a local fishing boat. Noko island of white sand is clean, there is no any plant on the island of Noko. Visitors can bathe and swim to enjoythe white sand, clear water and see the coral reefs.




E. Gilli Island
Gili Island is a tourist attraction are the most popular tourist destinations by travelers.This island has its own uniqueness, with the position of the isolated island of Gili butpeople can still survive and have the khasan own. Gili Island is inhabited by no morethan 30 kk (family head), which is almost the majority of their livelihood as fishermen. To get to the Gili islands, the traveler must ride a boat from the mainland Sidogedungbatu(Bawean) about an hours drive north. In the course of the travelers were able to enjoy the beauty of underwater life.



Rite and Ritual

 Rite and Ritual
 Meaning "Rite" [Latin]: religious ordinances, ceremonies religion, ceremonies, customs, habits. UK: rite-ritual = Indonesia: "rite", while "ritual" itself is adjective formation in the UK and Indonesia.
 
Rite:


- A. Nijk: rites arise because of the awareness of the gaps (lacunae, hiatus), there is something missing, not formulated, but people have to "do something without knowing how to ". So, people were "doing something" by trial and error. What was in the area of ​​awareness and feelings expressed by trying to do something. The first experiment was repeated, and repeated. Repetitive actions often accompanied by a strong devotion. So, be a rite.


- Ronald L. Grimes: a type of behavior that clearly and deliberately distinguished from "normal behavior" that shows a special rule in space and time. Rite is a series of actions that are widely known by members of the culture as a "classic", "normative", "Essential" for proper understanding of the relation with self, world, and the Divine.
 
Ritual:- Ronald L. Grimes: a blend of several types action, eg. singing, drama, dance.


- Roy Rappoport: a form or structur displayed through a series of formal acts and sayings are not made by the perpetrators. Character is formal (invariant, stylized, repetitive, stereotyped, bound particular time and place), performative (not just a way to express something, but the ritual itself is an aspect of what is being disclosed, different drama [to audiences who saw] the ritual [Need to congregations that participated]), and efficacious (Not only communicate, but also make an impact, an efficacy that is not derived from experience senses and did not refer to the influence of material).


- Catherine Bell (ritual / rite / ritual) is not composed of unique actions that occur only in context of the rite, but a way of acting, a different in ways other act, any type of contrast (eg celebration of the Eucharist = not as a ritual food and drink usual). The difference was strengthened through a variety of strategies.


Social: the period, material, location. Objectives: [1] distinguish means "this" way "it", [2] confirms the values ​​of available from the distinction, [3] gives the participants a "Experience" of the distinction is based on the nature reality (there is a hierarchy of behavior: the higher, moresacred).


- Gerard Lukken: not enough just to say that the ritual contain elements of a symbol (of Things), the symbolic action (Acts), and symbolic language (words), but need to see ritual significance of the functional characteristics: [1] healing and distribution (to give relief, exemptions are not must find its own way; especially when faced crisis situations: death, disasters; but also whenjoy: to manage and channel the emotions); [2] liaison with the past (always been a long time, been There, a childhood memory: now brought back); [3] ethical (donations to non-ritual actions: taken out of self and active in the community); [4] social (Express themselves in ways that people can understand others, to determine the identity of the collective, the community needs ritual in order to truly be a community); [5] petition (Invokatif aspects, inviting outside forces us for help); [6] expressive (even heritage character, ritual also express ourselves; help us to provide face to our experience and to understand themselves itself).



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what is culture?

Definition of cultureCulture is a way of life that developed and owned jointly by a group of people and passed down from generation to generation. Culture is made up of many complex elements, including religious and political systems, customs, languages, tools, clothing, buildings, and artwork. Language, as well as culture, an indispensable part of human beings, so many people tend to think of a genetically inherited. When someone tried to communicate with people who berbada culture and adjust their differences, proving that culture is learned.
Culture is a holistic lifestyle. culture is complex, abstract, and spacious. Many aspects of the communicative behaviors imposed their culture. The elements of socio-cultural spread and cover a lot of human social activities.
Some of the reasons why people experience difficulties when communicating with people from other cultures is seen in the definition of culture: Culture is a complex device values ​​are polarized by an image containing a view on its own merits. "The image of the force" that takes different forms in various cultures such as "rugged individualism" in America, "the individual harmony with nature" d Japan and the "collective compliance" in China. Brsifat cultural image of the force to equip its members with guidance on appropriate behavior and set a world of meaning and logical values ​​that can be borrowed its members the most humble to gain a sense of dignity and coherence with their lives.
Thus, budayalah which provides a framework for a coherent organizing one's activities and enable it to predict the behavior of others.
Culture is closely related to the public. Melville J. Herskovits and Bronislaw Malinowski argued that anything contained in this society is determined by the culture which is owned by the community itself. The term for it is the opinion-Cultural determinism.
Herskovits saw culture as something handed down from one generation to another, who then called the superorganic. According to Andreas Eppink, cultures containing whole notion of social values, social norms, knowledge and overall social structures, religious, etc., plus all the intellectual and artistic statements that characterize a society.
According to Edward Burnett Tylor, culture is a complex whole, in which are knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs, and other capabilities acquired one as a member of the community.
According Selo Soemardjan and Soelaiman Soemardi, culture is the means of work, taste, and the copyright community.
Of the various definitions, can be obtained an understanding of culture is something that will affect the level of knowledge and cover the system of ideas or ideas contained in the human mind, so in everyday life, the culture is abstract. While the embodiment of cultural objects that are created by humans as cultural beings, and the behavior of objects that are tangible, such as patterns of behavior, language, equipment life, social organization, religion, art, etc., which all of which is intended to assist humans in carrying out their social life.