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DHURUNG is the name of a not-walled huts are usually made of wood or bamboo
and the roof is a tassel made from the leaves of which in the language Bawean
Pohan called dheun tree.
In
the tradition of community Bawean, dhurung is used as a resting place
eliminates tired after returning from the fields. Dhurung
is also a place of socializing with neighbors or to neighboring villages or
even not infrequently used as a place to find a mate. Additionally
Dhurung be a playground for children - children and adolescents such as
dominoes, chess, Dam - daman (special chess Bawean) and carom.
Dhurung
have a beautiful sculptural value and can not be imitated, and multi-purpose function,
namely as the 'granary' rice storage place and a place to rest. This
is due, the buildings 'dhurung' usually united, between rest areas and storage
of rice.
As
a rice storage place, dhurung also features some kind of trap-jhelepang are
impassable mice as pests of rice plants. Only,
this time presence on the island of Bawean dhurung've rarely seen. Especially,
in the newly opened settlement and its inhabitants that the majority of young
couples. They
began to abandon the tradition of building dhurung because do not have areas
for storing rice paddies, homes and land that is too narrow.
Dhurug
usually placed in front of or beside the house. Sometimes if
the size is large, this dhurung dual function. The
top was a granary, the bottom of Dhurung, could be as a place of wood fuel (for
cooking), chicken coop, or as a place to store tools - tools for farming such
as hoes, sickles and other tools.
But
more and more days lost due Dhurung eroded by modernization, many are broken
down for use of land and other economic standpoint. Of
course this is very unfortunate because dhurung a relic of history of the
ancestors of the Bawean, hopefully people realize Bawean aware that dhurung not
just the remedy off fatigue but more than that dhurung is one of the cultural
assets that must be preserved by Indonesia and even the world