For people around the Bengawan Solo valley,
especially in the Sangiran area, Sragen, Indonesia, the name Balung Buto is
familiar to their ears, balung buto means giant bones. their
understanding of balung buto is related to the oral tradition of the
great war that took place in the hills of Sangiran, thousands of years
ago. In that battle, many giants died and were buried in the hills of
Sangiran, as "proven" by the large pieces of bones they
called balung buto.
Prior to the arrival of Koenigswald,
the balung buto was thought to have magical powers. In addition,
as a means of healing various diseases, self-protection or as a talisman, to
help the birth process. So, it is not surprising that in the period before
the 1930s, balung buto was sought after by local residents. Until
archaeologists change that view.
After the story above, surely Asian
Destination Readers think about Sangiran Museum, right? So the Sangiran
Museum is not only in one place? but there are several museums located in
the Sragen and Karanganyar districts, namely:
a. Sangiran Cluster
Krikilan Museum, which is the largest and most famous museum
b. Dayu Cluster
Sangiran Museum
c. Sangiran Cluster
Ngebung Museum
d. Sangiran Cluster
Manyarejo Museum
e. Sangiran Cluster
Bukur Museum
Of the five existing clusters, the admin will
provide information on 2 museums, namely the Ngebung Cluster Museum and the
Manyarejo Cluster Museum, about... why? Can anyone answer
maybe? YAP... these two museums are more about what Balung Buto is
about!!! In addition, the admin is interested in these two museums because
the level of visitors is still low.
Sangiran Cluster Manyarejo Museum
Inaugurated on November 5, 2014, indeed the
museums in the manyarejo, ngebung, dayu, and Bukuran clusters are considered
young because this museum was established to complement the sangiran krikilan
cluster museum. In the Manyarejo museum, there are two exhibition spaces,
namely indoor and outdoor. In the outdoor room there is an excavation display,
namely fossil excavation. Here is shown a variety of soil that has fossils
in it.
Next we enter the indoor room, now in this
indoor there is an exhibition of several existing fossils such as a replica of
a skull, a bull's head, and a stone ball. Although this museum is about
ancient humans, make no mistake, bloggers, here and in all Sangiran museums are
equipped with electronic media that can make it easier for visitors to
understand about Sangiran and the fossils found. Even in the bookkeeping
cluster, the concept is futuristic, you know, but we won't be discussing
bookkeeping clusters.
Here, the picture above shows the contents of
the Indoor Museum Manyarejo exhibition room, when bloggers enter this room,
they are ready to pamper their ears with the strains of Javanese gamelan music,
don't be afraid, but. The room is quite nice too, there is air
conditioning which is quite cold, different from the air outside the museum
which tends to be hot when the admin visits. This museum is smaller than
the other museums. Here there is the Legend of Balung Buto, starting from
what Balung Buto is to the legend of the creation of several village names in
the Kalijambe District, Sragen Regency, you know, it was cool that ancient
people connected something magically, it would be beyond people's understanding
now.
Here is also described the timeline from the
beginning of the discovery to the construction of this museum, you know, cool,
right!, from there, it was discovered that the local community and the
researcher had a harmonious relationship, you know. So that is also one of
the reasons why the Manyarejo museum was built to commemorate the harmonious
relationship between the community and researchers who come from outside and
within the country.
In addition, this museum has profiles of
domestic researchers, what tools are used for excavation, engineering about the
legend of Balung Buto is also here, you know. There's also a t-shirt about
the legend of Balung Buto, for blogger friends who want to buy it, let's come
here. Next we will visit the Sangiran Cluster Ngebung Museum.
Sangiran Cluster Ngebung Museum
The museum was inaugurated on October 19,
2014, the hallmark of this museum is a statue of an elephant in front of the
museum, when Asian Destination readers enter, you will see from a distance
replicas of archaeologists who are excavating together with the surrounding
community. On the right and left there is an inscription about the Origin
of the Sangiran Museum, and behind it there are 4 monitors that play videos of
legends about ancient humans and gods around the world. Well, from here,
it can be seen that the Museum in Sangiran has been recognized by UNESCO, you
know, so as generations of heirs we should be proud of what we have.
At the Ngebung Museum, there are 3 exhibition
halls, of course, apart from the replica of the excavation earlier, let's just
go ahead
In Exhibition Room One, there are photos of
archaeologists investigating early humans, articles about Eugene Dubois' The
Missing Link theory, to replicas of ancient humans. Most of the
archaeologists' profiles come from abroad, but there are also some indigenous
archaeologists, including a replica of Raden Saleh. In fact, apart from being
good at painting, he is also diligent in collecting fossils.
In the second exhibition room here, we study about Balung
Buto, what is Balung Buto and how people react to this Balung Buto, the picture
above shows that at that time people used Balung Buto for medicine, well,
Chinese drug dealers usually collect fossils because they are considered like
dragon fossils. time it has been used in China for treatment. In front of
the replica of the community there is a replica of a Chinese person selling medicine. In
this second xhibition room, there is also a relationship between researchers
and journals about the swelling cluster.
Continue to the third exhibition room. In
this final room there is an incomplete stegodon bone. Stegodon you
know? It's the elephant. In this room there is also a photo of the
current generation as the heir to Sangiran, if we don't take care of Sangiran
who else? Before leaving the Ngebung Museum, try to write a message and
impression for the Ngebung Museum on the existing touch screen monitor.
This museum campaigns for the beauty of
harmonization of tolerance, respect for history, and our responsibilities as
generations of Sangiran heirs.
If
you want to visit the Sangiran Museum, the Manyarejo cluster and the Ngebung
cluster, from Surakarta City you can use the Trans Jateng bus to Sangiran
Museum for IDR 4,000, after that use a motorcycle taxi or bus travel to the
Ngebung Museum and the Manyarejo Museum. Entrance tickets to visit are not
charged ticket prices, you know, aka free. Most only asked to pay
Rp. 2,000.00 to pay for parking there. Items that must be brought
with friends if you are a history lover are notebooks and cameras.
Asian
Destination readers must imagine as archaeologists who are carrying out
excavation activities at the Manyarejo Museum. Typical museums in
Indonesia are holidays or museum closing days on Mondays, you can visit other
than Mondays from 08.00-16.00. Nearby tourist destinations are the
Krikilan Cluster Sangiran Museum, Dayu Cluster, and Bukur Cluster. In
addition, if you want to enjoy nature tourism, you can visit Mount Kemukus and
Kedung Ombo Reservoir.
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