Bengkulu Holds Tabot Festival

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Rabu, 29 Oktober 2014 10:24 WIB

Tabot Ritual in Bengkulu. ANTARA

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - People in Bengkulu is celebrating the Islamic New Year in the Bengkulu Tabot Festival that will last until November 2. Bengkulu Governor Junaidi Hamsyah said that the annual event is held to preserve tradition and to promote creativity of artists in Bengkulu.


“This festival is inspired by sacred ritual done by Tabot family that is full of art and culture entertainment, it is a worth-seeing tourism destination,” said Junaidi Hamsyah in the festival opening on Friday.


The ten-day celebration will be enliven with folk dance competition, folk aprty, parade, drum festival, and many other.


Tabot Festival is Bengkulu’s traditional ceremony to commemorate the heroic death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandchild, Husein bin Ali bin Abi Thalib, in the war in Iraq, in 681 AD.


The festival was initiated in 1685 by Syeh Burhanuddin whose bloodline known as Tabot family. Now it is celebrated by the whole Bengkulu people.



PHESI ESTER JULIKAWATI





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