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Traditional Games of Gasing

Spinner games (gasing) are popular games of Bangka island. The game has long been known and the main game ancestors in Bangka Belitung, but this game not only in Bangka Belitung,

but generally there are in areas that have cultural elements Malays.

As a traditional game, tops can provide many benefits and should be preserved because it has historical value, could be used as a symbol and mascot for the region, made the sport that can be measured by achievement scores and can be developed on a larger event such as PON (National Sports Games Olympic), contains the value of art, create jobs in the industry cultivate a top craftsman, as a means of public entertainment and can add the Regional Revenue and a tourism asset.
Top games can be done individually or in groups. The game uses a top made of wood, usually taken the mattress or the strongest part of the timber located in the middle or the roots. Timber wood usually used Menggeris, Pelawan, Iron Wood, Leban, Mentigi. By using the traditional tools of machetes, knives and teribik (broken glass), wood is shaped into a top that can be played. It also used a long rope woven from the bark, but at the present time is to use synthetic rope to play kazoos.
In ancient times carried a top game on the sidelines of farming or gardening activities and does not have any particular arena or field to play a top. Usually done in a place or a field that has a slightly hard soil and flat, and form play groups. There is also done in front of the house of a villager. There has been no specific rules or written about the game tops. They only played old Uri and beat a top opponent’s strength. For a long  the Uri solved tops or opponents, so they are considered skilled in the game tops. At the present time has made the rules or a system that can measure one’s achievement. Rules were made to preserve the traditional game tops the Malays and to race in sports has begun considering tops rarely played.

Pacu Jalur, The Runway Track

Kuantan Singingi is an administrative area which includes the Riau Province, the region has many rivers. Such geographical conditions, makes most people need a transportation. Then came the pathways were beautiful carvings, such as snake head carved, a crocodile, or a tiger. In addition, the coupled with an umbrella gear, ropes, scarves, middle pillar and waving (where the helmsman stood).

These changes marked the development of a line function not just transportation, but also to demonstrate social identity. Therefore, only the region ruler, nobles, and the progenitors are decorated with lines that drive. Further development (approximately 100 years later), the path is not merely a means of transportation and a symbol of social status, but played off the speed through a race. And, the race called “Pacu Jalur (Runway Track)”.
In the first race was held in the villages along the Kuantan River to commemorate the great days of Islam, such as the Birthday of Prophet Muhammad. When that every race is not always followed by gift giving. That is, there are villages that provide gifts and some do not provide it. Contest prizes are not providing end with the meal. The type of food is a local traditional food, such as: Konji, Godok, Lopek, Paniaran, Lida Kambing, and Golek fruit. Meanwhile, a competition with prizes, organizers must provide four different sizes of the Marewa. The first champions get a big size and the second champions get the smallest size. However, today no longer gift a Marewa but a livestock (cattle, buffalo, or goat).
When the Dutch began in Riau (1905), precisely in the area that is now the Teluk Kuantan city, they use race track in celebrating the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina on every August 31. As a result, race track is no longer celebrated on the feast days of Muslims. Teluk Kuantan residents even consider each anniversary celebrations of Queen Wilhelmina as the arrival of the new years. Therefore, until now there is something called the activity as a Tambaru race. Pacu Jalur activity had stopped during the Japanese occupation. However, at the time of independence Pacu Jalur are routinely held to commemorate the anniversary of independence day Republic of Indonesia (17 August).

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