JAVANESE TRADITIONAL

GAMES

YOSEF BUDI SUSETYA

QUO VADIS?

PROBLEM

Javanese traditional games (dolanan Jawa)

for kids such as Jamuran, Cublak-cublak

Suweng, Blarak-blarak Sempal, Gajah

Telena, Udan Barat, etc will no longer exist in

Java.

PROBLEM

Kids traditional games (dolananJawa) will only be an artifact .

Many people don’t realize this sad facts.

Many of us think that it is not important and interesting.

FACTS

A very fast technology development

make the kids don’t need to play

with other friends.

FACTS

Mobile phone, television and other electronic gadgets make

almost all kids don’t have enough chances to play with

others.

FACTS

Most modern

technology

can fulfill our

needs to

play with our

imagination.

FACTS

Physical

meeting in

modern era is

no longer

considered

important

because it can

be replaced by

SMS, telephone

, etc.

FACTS

Many kids are lazy to move and

some of them don’t want to go to

school because they become “game

addict”.

TRADITIONAL GAMES IN

HISTORY

Togetherness

is very

important for

kids in the

past.

TRADITIONAL GAMES IN

HISTORY

For playing and

having fun they

needed other kids

as in life we need

other people.

Togetherness and

hand in hand to

help are the values

of the traditional

games.

TRADITIONAL GAMES IN

HISTORY

Traditional

games form a

strong bond

of friendship

and

relationship.

TRADITIONAL GAMES IN

HISTORY

Dolanan anak

also need very

intensive

physical

meeting to

others.

TRADITIONAL GAMES IN

HISTORY

The existence

of people in a

real life can’t be

replaced merely

by

pictures, senten

ces or voices.

VALUES OF TRADITIONAL

GAMES

FIRST VALUE

Games that imitate what their

parents do, such as

trading, marriage, visiting, making

house from stone and sand, making

dolls clothes from fabric and

paper, and making puppet from

leaves or grass. It helped them to

experience real life skills.

SECOND VALUE

Games to enhance

their skills and

physical

strengths, for

example tag

game, crawling, wrestli

ng, engklek

(picture), gobak

sodor, gobak

bunder, bengkat, bent

THIRD VALUE

Games to train our

five senses.

In this games, kids

practice to touch

something using

hands, to count, to

estimate the

distance, to sharpen

our sight and listening

skills and to draw.

For example:

gatheng, dakon(picture), macanan, sum

bar-suru, sumbar-manuk, sumbar-dulit, kubuk, adu-

kecik, adu-kemiri, main

kelereng, jirak, bengkat, pathon, dekepa

n, drawing in the sand, petak

umpet, bayang-bayangan, and

FOURTH VALUE

Conversation games to exercise language and thinking skills.

Kids togetherness is always followed by

conversation to each other about myth or

legend story, experiences story, or riddle that

stimulate their imagination.

The riddle is not only an ordinary

questions, such as pitik-walik saba kebonand pong-pong bolong. Sometimes the riddle is

created from their own imagination.

FIFTH VALUE

Games using

songs.

For example: jamuran, cublak-cublak suweng

(picture), bibi tumbastimun, manuk-manuk

dipanah, tokung-tokung, blarak-blarak

sempal, demplo, bang-bang-tut, pung-

irung, bethu-

CONCLUSION

Traditional games have so many

valuable substances for

kids’ physical, social and emotional development.

So, we need to preserve it well for our next generation

in the future.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hermanu, 2012, Ilir-ilir: Ilustrasi Tembang

Dolanan, Yogyakarta: Bentara Budaya.

Overbeck., H., 1938, Javaansche

Meissjespelen en Kinderlidjes, Java

Instituut Jogjakarta.