30 November 2011

Folktale of Banyuwangi

THE FOLKTALE OF BANYUWANGI
EASTERN-MOST REGENCY EAST JAVA - INDONESIA


Once upon a time, there was a big kingdom located in East Java Province. This Kingdom was led by a fair and wise king. The king has a handsome son “Raden Banterang”. He is really like hunting. One day Raden Banterang said to his slave "This morning, I will hunt to the forest. Prepare a hunting tool for me". After all the hunting equipments were ready, Raden Banterang was accompanied by his servants went to the forest. When Raden Banterang was walking alone, he saw a deer crossing in front of him. He was then chasing the deer quickly and without being known he is in the middle of the forest. He separated from his servants.

Though he knew he got lost, he was still trying to find that deer. He was so curious to catch it, crossing the bush and trees in the middle of huge forest but still he couldn’t find the animal he wanted to catch. He felt tired and thirsty, luckily he found a river with its clear water. He drank the water slowly and washed his face till his thirst was gone. When he had finished drinking the water from the river, and wanted to move his feet, he was so surprised seeing a beautiful girl, “really she is so beautiful” he started talking in his mind.

“No way” “a beautiful girl? In the strange forest? “ “it couldn’t be, unbelievable”. Is she a gosh or an human being?” Slowly he ventured his self to get closer with the girl and askes “are you a girl or a forest gosh?” She smiled and said that she is an human being and her name is Surati from Klungkung Kingdom. She was there because she tried to escape herself from the enemy and his father had passed away when he tried to protect his kingdom. Raden Banterang felt sympathy with her life, he wanted to help and asked her to go with him back to his palace. Time flied and finally they got married.

One day, Princess Surati walked alone out of the palace and someone shouted to her “Surati! Surati!” a man with ragged and dirty cloth called her. She recognized him cause he is her brother “Rupaksa”. Rupaksa told her that Raden Banterang was the person who killed their father and he asked her to take a revenge. Surati told him that she has got married with Raden Banterang, she didn’t want to take a revenge to him. Since Surati didn’t want to help her brother to take a revenge to Raden Banterang, Rupaksa was so angry with her, but he gave her a red headband and he told her to keep it under her bed.

Raden Banterang didn’t know about her wife and her wife’s brother meeting since he was hunting in the forest. When he was in the middle of the forest, suddenly a man with ragged and dirty cloth came to him and said “My lord, Raden Banterang, your safety is being threatened and it was your wife the one who planned it. You can see the proof under her bed, there is a red headband. It belongs to the man who is ordered to kill you, my lord.” And then, after said that he disappeared directly.

Raden Banterang started to believe what the man said to him in the forest and he was back home and straight to his wife bed. He tried to find the red headband and he found it! He told to his wife “this is the proff, this red headband is a proof that you wanna betray me, you wanna kill me, how dare you! So this is your thankful to me?” Surati denied all the charge against her and she said “please believe me, I didn’t do that. I never wanna betray you my husband.” But Raden Banterang still didn’t believe her. He wanted to hurt her before she killed him.

Raden Banterang intended to drown his wife to a river. After arriving near the river, he told her about his meeting with a strange man in the forest. She told him that he is her brother who gave her the headband. Still Raden Banterang didn’t believe her . Then Surati said to him “my husband, please open your heart and mind, I will give my life and soul to protect your safety but give me a chance to tell you about the meeting between my brother and I.”

Surati said again “My brother is the one who wanna kill you. He ask my help but I refuse it.” Raden Banterang heard all the explanation but his heart wasn’t melt at all. He even thought that his wife was lie to him. Surati shouted to him “My husband, I’ll jump to this river, if the water is clear and has fragrant smell, it means I am not fault! But if the water is muddy and has putrid odor, it means I am fault!” Raden Banterang thought what his wife told him was just a lie, then he draw his kris and at the same time, Surati jump to the river.

Only several second after her jumped, the magic happened, fragrant smell spread around the river. Realized what was happening, Raden Banterang shouted “My wife is not fault! This river is aromatic! No!” How regret Raden Banterang was. He cried and so sad loosing his beloved wife and really regret how he could be so stupid, didn’t believe in her own wife. But it’s too late.

Since that time, the place where the river has fragrant smell called “Banyuwangi”. “Banyu” means “water” and “wangi” means “aromatic”. “Banyuwangi” then become the name of my hometown, a small city in East Java Island.


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