Jethungan - Traditional Games

Jethungan - Traditional Games

Cheerful village children had also frequently seen of the game jethungan. There are many places in Java Dolanan child who knows the type of traditional Javanese society, although with somewhat different names, such as jethungan, jelungan, dhelikan, or seek. But the same principle of the game, ie players winners

hiding, while the player loses or dadi trying to find other players without having to leave too much base as a place to play.

The term has also been recorded in jethungan Baoesastra (Dictionary) Djawa essay WJS Porwadarminto published in 1939. On page 84, noting that the dictionary is a type Dolanan jethungan children. In the dictionary, too, mentioned that another name is jelungan and jembelungan jethungan. Of terms in the dictionary shows that the traditional game of this type has been known before in 1939 by the children of the Java community.

Jethungan or jelungan term commonly used in an area as that term is often uttered by players who made it to the base without being able to guess by the player loses. While the term used dhelikan and seek in other areas, further pointing to the player who wins when you're hiding. While there is no clear reference to information jembelungan said.

Like many traditional games that are known by the children in the Java environment, Dolanan jethungan also does not require expensive equipment costs and. Dolanan can be played by children without the cost, because it only requires a fairly large place. First, this Dolanan usually played in the yard, inside the house, on the streets of the village, in the field, as well as in the township. Children who love to play jethungan aged 6-14 years. But there are times when kids come into play bigger. The game done in groups, meaning that more ideal played between 4-10 children. Jethungan often played moments of leisure time, such as the late afternoon or evening. When the holiday is sometimes also played in the morning. Similarly, when at school, it could be time off.

Children who want to play Dolanan jethungan usually after assembled, agree on a few simple rules, for example, restrictions on the game, not allowed to enter the house (if playing outdoors), should look really designated (dithor, disekit) rather than from speculation , time should not close their eyes glance, should not be constantly waiting for the base (wait Brok), and so on. If they've made a simple rule, they choose a base to be used as a game center, for example a tree, wall corners, patrolling substations, wall gate, fence corner, pole home, or other. Base as much as possible easily accessible by all players.

All children who will play, for example, amounted to seven children (A, B, C, D, E, F, and G), should do beforehand to determine hompimpah lose win. Currently there is one player who has dadi , then the kids who win parachute immediately burrow into places that are not easily seen by the child dadi. Dadi players the opportunity to give children who would hide, usually wearing a count of 1-10 and the player wins if all had been hiding, and they were shouting wis, or ndhuuuk silent. With a code like that, it means that the player dadi ready to look for it. He must find the children who hid one by one. If you have found one child, for example named B, so he immediately called his name (sekit B) and then race to run back to base with a child who guessed or any other term has disekit. If B had lost quickly arrive at the base means he is dadi. While a player who loses a child who wins, it means go into hiding.