Getting married is not just a matter of two people together who love each other. There is a wider significance, such as willingness to share the burden of life and unites two or more families. In Pengotan Village, Bangli Regency, Bali, both meaning the marriage was more viscous feel.
The tradition of marriage in the village has two unique Pengotan. First, marriage should only be conducted twice a year based on the Hindu calendar. Weddings performed at sasih Kapat (the fourth month) and sasih kedasa (tenth month) in the Gregorian calendar or around September-October and February-March.
Second, because it only lasted two times a year, weddings are always carried out in bulk. In a single wedding ceremony, there can be 70 pairs or at least only 5 pairs of brides.
Therefore, every time there's a mass wedding ceremony, the atmosphere in the village of Pengotan suddenly crowded, as happened on Friday (18/02/2011) afternoon. Residents from outside the village also flocked to see the uniqueness of the wedding.
Marriage in the afternoon involved 20 pairs of brides who were the original inhabitants Pengotan Village. "Actually, people from other regions or other beliefs that married people should get married Pengotan Village with this tradition," said village leader Pengotan, Wayan Kopok.
The series of the wedding ceremony lasted a total of six days. Three days before the ceremony on Friday afternoon peaks, each pair of cymbals deliver to sedah bridal offerings to the indigenous leaders of the village. Ritual symbolizes the bride who will do the seriousness of marriage.
After the wedding ceremony took place, the groom and the women still do the rituals pebratan. For three days after the wedding, every bride should not be out of the yard. They also used the time to receive guests who wanted to congratulate.
Ritual peak
On top of the wedding day, around 10:00 pm, Temple Upgrading General Pengotan which became the center of bustling activity began weddings. The peduluan or temple officials began arranging the offerings.
Beef is a staple offering at the ceremony. "Once every pair of bride and groom must submit one cow. Now just one cow for all couples, "said Kopok. The change was made so as not to burden the bride. If one cow USD 4 million, then each pair only pay about Rp 200,000.
Besides cattle, there are also other offerings are prepared, such as rice, chicken meat, and fruits. All of the offerings it already should be well organized before the wedding was called into the temple. Every couple who wear traditional dresses such songket Balinese paraded one by one leading to the temple.
Outside the temple, the bride followed the ritual cleansing or pebiak Kalan. Self cleaning is also performed in temples by priests and also become the core rituals of this mass wedding.
Pura seem crowded during wedding procession in progress. Anyone who wants to witness this wedding should wear traditional Balinese clothing. Men wear fabric and Udeng kamben, while women wear a cloth kamben and kebaya. Women who are menstruating should not enter temples.
Before returning home, the bride must perform a ritual at every temple in the village, amounting to 13 temples. The bride looked up and down on foot in the village street with their family members delivered. That process takes about 1.5 hours.
Arriving at the custom house, every couple feeding each other as a symbol for mutual support. The procession was accompanied by songs sung in Balinese languages village elder.
"After pebratan completed, we will move into our own house," said one groom, Wayan Dayuh (36). Pebratan wedding procession and it took place in the traditional house. In the village Pengotan, residents of settlements similar to the cluster system. Each cluster is comprised of several housing units occupied by one big family and in it there is a traditional house.
Local wisdom
One of the residents Pengotan Village, Made Forced (36), underwent ritual mass weddings in 1989 along with four other pairs of bride. "Almost all are still original marriage ceremony procession, until now not much changed," he said.
The leadersin the village was trying hard to preserve the traditions of Bali'sonly because this mass wedding contain positive values . One of them is a fine gift for the bride who is pregnant out of marriage. They will be fined Rp 40,000 per month up to a mass wedding was held.
Customary sanctions in the form of fines also apply to citizens of the Village Pengotan who married another tradition. Sanctions will be determined by the village leaders.
Although unique, the village leader is not ambitious to make this ritual as a major tourist attraction. "The important thing is this tradition still survive," said Kopok.
For those who occupied the village of 699 families Pengotan and most of them worked as farmers, mass wedding was quite ease the burden citizens. Family every couple becomes more familiar because many things are equally shared. Local wisdom is what needs to be preserved.
Quoted from :http://travel.kompas.com/read/2011/06/08/0911291/Di.Pengotan.Menikah.Harus.Bersama-sama
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