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3 unusual facts about Sundanese people


Kacapi

Kacapi is a zither-like Sundanese musical instrument played as the main accompanying instrument in the Tembang Sunda or Mamaos Cianjuran, kacapi suling (tembang Sunda without vocal accompaniment) genre (called kecapi seruling in Indonesian), pantun stories recitation or an additional instrument in Gamelan Degung performance.

The Baduy Sundanese of Banten Province still make exclusive use of the kacapi to accompany their pantun stories.

Phosop

Similar rice goddesses also can be found in other Asian countries such as Dewi Sri; a Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese rice, agriculture and fertility goddess in Indonesia, and Khmer Po Ino Nogar; the rice goddess of Cambodia.


Betawi people

They have a culture and language distinct from the surrounding Sundanese and Javanese.

Priyayi

Although “Javanized” by Mataram’s political expansion, the Sundanese-speaking western part of Java, the easternmost parts of Java, and the nearby island of Madura retain ethnic, linguistic, and cultural differences from the Mataramese heartland.

Sunda Kingdom

Although the kingdom of Sunda left little archaeological remains, it remains part of culture of Sundanese people through the Pantun oral tradition, the chant of poetic verses.

Knowledge of the kingdom among Sundanese people has been kept alive through Sundanese Pantun oral tradition, the chant of poetic verses about the Golden Age of Sunda Pajajaran, and the legend of King Siliwangi ( Prabu Siliwangi), the most popular king of Sunda.

Sutomo

Sutomo was born in Kampung Blauran in the centre of Surabaya to a clerk father, Kartawan Tjiptowidjojo, and mother of mixed Javanese, Sundanese and Madurese descent.


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