If in Spain we can see Matador with bullfight, in Indonesia there is a traditional festival that called Karapan Sapi, this festival like racing but use Cow as the subject. We can see this festival in Madura, a region in northeast Java Island. Karapan Sapi is not an ordinary race, for Madura’s people this festival like a way to dignity.
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In Karapan Sapi, one person must use two cows where in the shoulders mounted a chariot of the wood as a jockey to stand and to set up a pair of cows in terms of direction and speed. To initiate a race Karapan Sapi usually accompanied by “Saronen”; Gamelan music that typical of Madura Island. And the jockeys use traditional dress that call “pesa’an”; is black color clothes and on the inside there are sleeve shirt that colored red and white stripes. Besides of tradition, Karapan Sapi is also a party after harvest rice and tobacco in Madura.
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The history of Karapan Sapi is beginning in 13th century, this festival been famous by Pangeran Katandur from Sapudi Island, Sumenep. In the past, Cow is using by farmer to cultivate the land to be farm, and after the farm produce or harvest, Pangeran Katandur ask his society to do Racing with cow. And from that time, people always do Karapan Sapi after harvest.
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