Roro Kidul legend south sea origin Indonesia
Jakarta - Researchers tsunami from Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI) DR Eko Yulianto curious about the story claimed Nyi Roro Kidul, who according to legend he had also been discussed at the congress in Paris in the paranormal 1980s.In a meeting in Europe, the paranormal is generally interested in the fact that the legend grew among the people along the southern Indonesia, not only the south coast of Java. One area that is very long. That is what makes the investigators' paleotsunami "(ancient tsunami) was curious about the legend.
According to Eko, the area where the community resident who inherited the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul, known as the southern coastal area, confronted with the Indonesian Ocean, the subduction zone region of the earth plate.
Subduction is the process of continental plates menghujamnya greater mass to the existing continental plates beneath. The process of subduction is ongoing to create the country's Indonesian archipelago and its fertility.
But, the process also provides a variety of disasters, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
In this regard, Eko shows Nyi Roro Kidul paintings that record the legend. There is described a control queen in her carriage big wave rolling.
"It could be the legend that is the message that once there is a tsunami?" He said.
Was strengthened by the legendary queen of the south coast is often described tumbal requested by sending large waves far inland. Then, some victims were sent back to the ground as a message from Nyi Roro Kidul. Just tsunami.
Head of Research Center for Geoteknologi LIPI Harjono Herry, associate Nyi Roro Kidul legend with a history of tsunamis is the idea of "strange" that have the potential to reveal the history of tsunami events. He said the assistance of social scientists to uncover the origins of the legend was also believed to help research the history of tsunami events.
"The mind is now developing, may have been a great event marks a very ancient people. The incident was recorded in the legend Nyi Roro Kidul, "he said in a workshop paleotsunami, in Bandung.
The issues revealed in paleotsunami want to include the history of the tsunami and how its magnitude. For that, according to Herry, there are questions I want revealed, "When the legend began to grow?"
Acts like that, for example, will strengthen the results of geological studies to find traces of ancient tsunamis. For example the evidence of the earthquake and tsunami deposits in 400 years ago in Cilacap and Pangandaran is believed to far greater than what happened in 2006.
In a poster on display at the workshop mentioned, four candidate tsunami deposits found in the river bank Cimbulan Pangandaran. One of them was a layer of sand 20 cm thick that are deposited on the mud covered with mangrove and flood sediment.
Sand containing cockle "minifera fora" which usually live in open sea. Analysis of age of two pentarikhan samples taken from two different places shows that the tsunami sand layer was deposited 400 years ago.
"Could this tsunami associated with the origin of the legend of Nyi Roro Kidul?" The question in a book called "Surviving the Tsunami Disaster" which tells about people who survive the tsunamis in Aceh and Pangandaran.The book also discusses a number of traditional stories that are believed related to the tsunami.
For Herry, supporting-supported social scientists and researchers that a geological time will give results that can provide data to answer the question "how often the tsunami occurred on the south coast?"
The answer to that question will give a lot of consequences, at least to change the views of community life in the area that they live in a tsunami-prone areas?
If it is created, it will be easy to people to live close to the tsunami, it is easy to take them to always guard against disaster, so easy to teach them to act properly escape when the disaster finally arrived.
Local Knowledge
For Eko, treat legend as a message from the ancestors of the tsunami also raised the dignity of the legends of the various packs that had been covered.
Because, he said, many stories down through the generations in some areas, which, if observed, could be matched with the tsunami event. From a trip to a number of areas affected by the tsunami ever, he found the real story is the local knowledge to save themselves from huge waves lunge disaster.
He found that starting from Majene, Lombok, Mentawai, and Simeulue, although that is still considering traditional knowledge as a trick to save himself from the brunt of the tsunami was only in Simeuleu.
Knowledge is referred to by locals as "smong".
For researchers tsunami, Simeulue, an island in the southwest of Aceh, is a perfect laboratory of the tsunami. There, researchers found that many tsunami deposits, a complete earthquake record, and there are messages about the tsunami ancestors who continue to adhere community.
In the book "Surviving the Tsunami Disaster" mentioned that the island of Simeulue are closest to the epicenter December 26, 2004. But only seven people who died from the tsunami wave washes. That blessing "smong".
"Smong" contains a simple message, but still obeyed Simeulue residents. The message read: "If a strong earthquake followed by a decline of sea water, immediately ran to the mountains for the sea water will rise".
Traditional knowledge that emerged after the 1907 tsunami. Mentioned, often before the 1907 tsunami on the island that has contributed to the knowledge bersemainya. Historical records and geological studies indicate that the island was devastated by the tsunami in 1797, 1861, and 1907.
According to him, possessed a similar knowledge of the Mentawai people, North Sumetera.
Many people on the island who still memorized knowledge derived in the form of poetry. However, the poem is generally no longer understood as a legacy to deal with the tsunami.
That's because the word "teteu", the title poem, translated as "grandfather", though could also be interpreted as "an earthquake".
If interpreted in the Indonesian language, the poem reads: Teteu, the chipmunks singing / Teteu, the noise coming from above bukit-bukit/Teteu, there are landslides and the destruction / Teteu from the spirit of the sea shells are angry / that the tree was felled baiko / Birds kuliak singing / The chickens running around / Because there teteu has come / The people running.
There, the word "teteu" better defined as "grandfather", so that its meaning away from disaster. Meanwhile, if "teteu" replaced with "earthquake", its meaning will be more powerful.
Terbungkusnya messages contained in the core of local knowledge in the Mentawai's called a trend in many areas. One of the factors, there is no record that could be inherited by a generation born long after the tsunami occurred today.
Moreover, the giant tsunamis generally occur hundreds of years, so the story down through the generations that inherited turned into a legend that can be different interpretations of the original intent. When a giant tsunami comes a time, no more people who've been there, so that poetry down through the generations was revealed just a legacy.
According to Eko, linking local knowledge with ancient tsunami research is done deliberately. You see, during this historical record is owned by Indonesia is very short, and there is no record of who called the giant waves that occurred 400 years ago, for example. That many found it a story of descent that can be interpreted as a message about the tsunami.
By collecting and studying traditional knowledge, are expected to help the analysis of tsunami events in the past.
Aware of past tsunamis, he said, will help communities to respond appropriately when faced with similar disasters in the future.
Eko says, research and tsunami in southern Thailand Meulaboh produced surprising findings. The findings are published simultaneously in the international scientific journal published by "Nature" in October's edition shows that the giant tsunami similar to what happened in 2004 never happened in Aceh a few hundred years ago.
If these findings are revealed before the year 2004, he said, efforts to suppress the number of casualties and damage may be done.
To reduce losses like that also, according to Eko, paleotsunami research efforts should be increased capacity. The effort is no more to draw lessons from past events, including the excavation area and the tsunami which engulfed traditional knowledge,
According to him, during this same study did not justify the amount of the tsunami that happened in this country. It can be seen from the number of researchers who were involved in tsunami research, still little.
So, in addition to digging the ground in areas affected by the tsunami had to look for evidence of ancient tsunamis, Eko was diligently digging a local story, which probably has something to do with the large waves into the ground like that
For researchers tsunami, Simeulue, an island in the southwest of Aceh, is a perfect laboratory of the tsunami. There, researchers found that many tsunami deposits, a complete earthquake record, and there are messages about the tsunami ancestors who continue to adhere community.
In the book "Surviving the Tsunami Disaster" mentioned that the island of Simeulue are closest to the epicenter December 26, 2004. But only seven people who died from the tsunami wave washes. That blessing "smong".
"Smong" contains a simple message, but still obeyed Simeulue residents. The message read: "If a strong earthquake followed by a decline of sea water, immediately ran to the mountains for the sea water will rise".
Traditional knowledge that emerged after the 1907 tsunami. Mentioned, often before the 1907 tsunami on the island that has contributed to the knowledge bersemainya. Historical records and geological studies indicate that the island was devastated by the tsunami in 1797, 1861, and 1907.
According to him, possessed a similar knowledge of the Mentawai people, North Sumetera.
Many people on the island who still memorized knowledge derived in the form of poetry. However, the poem is generally no longer understood as a legacy to deal with the tsunami.
That's because the word "teteu", the title poem, translated as "grandfather", though could also be interpreted as "an earthquake".
If interpreted in the Indonesian language, the poem reads: Teteu, the chipmunks singing / Teteu, the noise coming from above bukit-bukit/Teteu, there are landslides and the destruction / Teteu from the spirit of the sea shells are angry / that the tree was felled baiko / Birds kuliak singing / The chickens running around / Because there teteu has come / The people running.
There, the word "teteu" better defined as "grandfather", so that its meaning away from disaster. Meanwhile, if "teteu" replaced with "earthquake", its meaning will be more powerful.
Terbungkusnya messages contained in the core of local knowledge in the Mentawai's called a trend in many areas. One of the factors, there is no record that could be inherited by a generation born long after the tsunami occurred today.
Moreover, the giant tsunamis generally occur hundreds of years, so the story down through the generations that inherited turned into a legend that can be different interpretations of the original intent. When a giant tsunami comes a time, no more people who've been there, so that poetry down through the generations was revealed just a legacy.
According to Eko, linking local knowledge with ancient tsunami research is done deliberately. You see, during this historical record is owned by Indonesia is very short, and there is no record of who called the giant waves that occurred 400 years ago, for example. That many found it a story of descent that can be interpreted as a message about the tsunami.
By collecting and studying traditional knowledge, are expected to help the analysis of tsunami events in the past.
Aware of past tsunamis, he said, will help communities to respond appropriately when faced with similar disasters in the future.
Eko says, research and tsunami in southern Thailand Meulaboh produced surprising findings. The findings are published simultaneously in the international scientific journal published by "Nature" in October's edition shows that the giant tsunami similar to what happened in 2004 never happened in Aceh a few hundred years ago.
If these findings are revealed before the year 2004, he said, efforts to suppress the number of casualties and damage may be done.
To reduce losses like that also, according to Eko, paleotsunami research efforts should be increased capacity. The effort is no more to draw lessons from past events, including the excavation area and the tsunami which engulfed traditional knowledge,
According to him, during this same study did not justify the amount of the tsunami that happened in this country. It can be seen from the number of researchers who were involved in tsunami research, still little.
So, in addition to digging the ground in areas affected by the tsunami had to look for evidence of ancient tsunamis, Eko was diligently digging a local story, which probably has something to do with the large waves into the ground like that
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