Tira Tangka Balang Festival

Murung Raya Society in the District have a special cultural festival called Tira Tangka Balang festival. Tira Tangka Balang Festival is a race event of art, culture, and traditional sport in Central Kalimantan. This festival always attracts the attention of local and foreign tourists because it displays the various cultures of Central Kalimantan, which can not be found elsewhere. Festival held each year has now become a cultural icon of pride of Murung Raya district.

Tira is actually the motto Tangka Balang Murung Raya District taken from the Borneo Dayak language. Tira Tangka advice Balang a sentence which means "If work must be thoroughly". The sentence that is the motto of the community spirit in Murung Raya district and later used also to name the festival Tira Tangka Balang.

Various arts and culture that are contested in the festival include Tira Tangka Balang karungut. This is berpantun Karungut art and storytelling from Central Kalimantan. There is also a competition to cook rice using bamboo called pakasak lemang. Dance and traditional music is also a mainstay in this festival.

Common types of dances that are contested are dances from the countryside and coast. In addition, the festival also attracted the attention of Tira Tangka Balang are sons and daughters of the election contest as a potential tourism ambassadors from Murung Raya District .

The race is a favorite local society is a traditional sport competitions. Among the kinds of traditional sports that are contested in Central Kalimantan is balogo and besei Kambe. Balogo is a traditional game using coconut shell from Banjar tribe in Kalimantan.

While besei Kambe is a tug of war contest over the boat in a river. In addition there are also competitions manetek or cut wood, bagasing or playing kazoos, mangaruhi or catch fish in the swamp, soccer or football sawut fire, and boat races.

Tira Festival Tangka Balang always lively in every its implementation. The festival was originally a container preservation of traditional culture has now become potential Borneo tourism. Participants who participated in the festival Tira Tangka Balang come from ten districts in the Murung Raya regency.

You are interested to join in the festive festival Tangka Balang Tira? You can come directly to the District Murung Raya in Central Kalimantan. The festival is held each year in sub-districts in Murung Raya district.

Quoted from : http://id.voi.co.id/fitur/voi-pesona-indonesia/6950-festival-tira-tangka-balang.html

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