Tengger (people)
The Tengger are a people with around 600,000 members in East Java and live mainly around the Gunung Bromo , one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. The area is also called Tengger after them. The area is located in the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park . The language Tenggerisch is an ancient Javanese with its own script derived from the Kawi .
origin
The Tenggers see themselves as direct descendants of the Majapahit Princess Roro Anteng and her husband Joko Seger from the end of the 15th century. The name of the people was formed from the final syllables of these names.
religion
The Tengger belong to the Indonesian Hindus , even if their religion, formerly called Buddha Jawa (Sunyata) , contains elements from local folk beliefs, Buddhism and an ancestral cult . The highest festival of the Enggerian lunar year is Yadnya Kasada (also Kasodo ), which is celebrated every 270 days in honor of the god Sang Hyang Widhi in the crater of Bromo.
lifestyle
The Tengger of the lowlands live as farmers, while those of the higher regions roam as nomads with ponies .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaeyeon Choe, Michael Hitchcock: Pilgrimage to Mount Bromo, Indonesia. In: DH Olsen, A. Trono (Eds.): Religious Pilgrimage Routes and Trails: Sustainable Development and Management. CAB International, 2018, pp. 180–195, here p. 183