Dhakonan - Traditional Games

Dhakonan - Traditional Games

For the Javanese, particularly for the girls period in the 1970s and earlier, dhakon game may already be familiar. This traditional game is to play their part in the world, especially in rural areas. Dhakon wood with carvings were also encountered, especially among the palace owned by the nobility and aristocracy of Java. Indeed, this dhakon toys became one of the daughter's favorite toy from among the nobility and the royal palace. But unfortunately, the game slowly began to no longer recognized by the new generation along with the times.However, it does not mean there is no dhakon tool in the present. There's also a dhakon in the Java community today.

But its main function has changed. Very rare girls playing dhakon now. If there dhakon in society, more work for decoration, home accessories to look njawani or may have entered the museum collection.Dhakon that in the Indonesian language is called the congklak, can actually call the game device itself or to the name of the game. If-dhakon ‖ refers to the tools, then dhakonan ‖-more points to play dhakon. In general, dhakon made of sticks with a length of about 50 cm, 15-20 cm wide, and about 4-5 cm thick. Wood species used were free, an important easily perforated (not until translucent, only about 2 cm, the shape is concave). More wood to form a rectangular shape with two side ends are often formed a half circle. Then, both sides of the elongated hole pairs created amounted to about 3-7 pieces. While at both ends of the concave hole is also made somewhat larger if compared with the holes on the right side of the left. So the total hole sunken in a dhakon between 8-16 pieces.

But it could be, dhakon not made of wood, but can be made by punching holes in the ground rather hard with a rock. Number of holes can be the same with dhakon cekungnya made of wood. Dhakon of land is made if the child is about to play dhakon dhakon not have tools out of wood. Indeed all the children of old does not necessarily have the tools dhakon wood. So, how practical is to make a hollow in the ground rather hard.Other materials are now widely used for the manufacture of plastic dhakon is. Dhakon plastic found in many toy stores, in supermarkets, traditional markets, or in night markets.

Dhakon lighter plastic or mild when compared with wood dhakon.While other tools are used is kecik sapodilla fruit or seeds, brown manila, srikaya, headlands, and the like. Can also use krikil stone granules are small, amounting kecik.Dhakon commonly worn by girls. Before play, each hole dhakon small kecik initially be given the same amount, for example, 6 pieces. Then multiplied by 2 to 5 holes is multiplied six kecik, it takes 60 kecik. For a small number of each hole can be a deal that will play dhakon child. Then the child will begin to play with-parachute dhakon to find the winner.The winner will start to play first. He is free to choose the initial hole to then be taken keciknya, then divided into the hole on the right side. Each hole was given one, including the barn located on the right. Then each hole's opponent is also given one. When the last kecik imposed on the hole that still contains other kecik, then he will continue to play the game. And so on back into the hole in the side of the player. 

The hole was not given the opponent's barn kecik. If the player when the last drop kecik on keciknya hole that does not exist, then he is considered to stop playing and continue to play your opponent. Thus the next, until small holes keciknya empty. Dhakon game also shot and mikul know. Apply if the player shot while dropping in the hole last kecik own, while the hole in front of the opposite side there is keciknya, it is said to shoot. It is said mikul, if the current drop in the last kecik opponent, on either side there keciknya.If someone is ahead of his opponent in the acquisition kecik, then he is considered to be won. Then the game can be resumed again until several rounds or until the saturation point.There are valuable lessons from playing dhakon, among them the sense of honesty and intelligence training count. 

This game is absolute honesty. Because without a foundation of honest, someone who plays dhakon will cheat to the detriment of others. When not based on a sense of honesty, then when the last kecik about to fall on an empty hole without kecik, he would have dropped it on the previous hole kecik existingkeciknya. Or it could be, barn itself will be filled one kecik in one round. Many ways to cheat if not imbued with a sense of honesty. So when the sense of cheating often appear, usually a person would be shunned by their friends play.In addition of course the game also requires intelligence dhakon arithmetic, such as when entering kecik in each hole and when calculating seed kecik one round at a time when the game was over. If it is not good at math, it will make playing outsmart your opponent. 

So intelligence is necessary in a game counting dhakon.Indeed in general the traditional game is more focused on planting the values ​​of character, such as a sense of honesty in the game dhakon or other values ​​that would be raised in other traditional games. In addition, the traditional game in general also involve high social sense, involves two more people, and not the individual. Also usually a traditional children's games, the raw material tools directly obtained from the surrounding natural environment without going through the processing plant. Creativity of children is usually more dominant in the traditional game, because the children are trained to make their own tools such games.