Kuda Renggong

Kuda Renggong is one of the folk performing arts that come from Sumedang. The word "Renggong" is a metathesis of the word ronggeng for kamonesan (Sundanese for "skill") way of running of a horse that has been trained to dance to the music, especially drums, which is usually used as a medium ride in the procession of children circumcision.

According to the narrative a few artists, Kuda Renggong emerged first from his village Cikurubuk, District Buah Dua, Sumedang. In the development Kuda Renggong progressing quite well, so it spread to various villages in several districts outside of District Buah Dua. Today, Kuda Renggong also spread to other areas outside the District Sumedang.

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Korowai and Kombai of Papua

Korowai And Kombai are the tribal people who live in the house that stand above the trees in Irian Jaya (Papua). They had very rare interaction with foreigners and they do not know the language they use only the tribal language only.

Kombai and Korowai tribe lived in Indonesia and certainly they are also residents of Indonesia. However it is very rare to find literature on them in the Indonesian language. Indeed many foreign researchers who visit them and learn their unique tribal life.

Korowai is one of the tribes in Papua who were not wear koteka. The men of these tribes were forced to put his penis into scrotum and at their ends with a kind of leaftight bandage. While the women only wearing a short skirt made ​​of Sago leaves. Sago is their main meal.

While men of Tribe Kombai use 'koteka' of a dried out gourd. Their weapons are arrows whose eyes are made of bone.

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