Tangerang

All about Tangerang

 

         

        Indonesia is a southeast Asian country that has a vast territory with many big cities in there, various kinds of culture, religion and ethnicity. Big cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Tangerang, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Palembang and Makassar have a diversity of cultures, tribes, and distinctive characteristics of each region, one of which we want to discuss is the city of TANGERANG.

              
               Tangerang is one of the cities in JABOTABEK in INDONESIA, the position of Tangerang City is making rapid growth. On one side of the Tangerang City area becomes an abundance of various activities in the Capital City of DKI Jakarta. On the other hand, Tangerang City can be a collector area of Tangerang Regency development as an area with productive natural resources.

               The rapid growth of Tangerang City is accelerated with the presence of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, part of which is included in the administrative area of Tangerang City. Indonesia's air transport gate has opened up opportunities for the development of trade and service activities extensively in Tangerang City.

              Tangerang also has a significant number of Chinese communities, many of them a mixture of Cina Benteng. Their culture is different from other Chinese communities in Tangerang: when almost none of them speak with a Mandarin accent, they are strong Taoists and keep their places of worship and community centers. Ethnically, they are mixed, but call themselves Chinese. 

               The Tangerang Chinatown area is located in Pasar Lama, Benteng Makassar, Kapling and Karawaci (not Lippo Village), and Poris. People can find Chinese food and goods. Lippo Village is the location of new settlements. Most of the inhabitants are immigrants, not native Cina Benteng .In There you meet many tourist spots, and some of the famous ones is: 

Hutan kota BSD

                If you familiar with Central Park in New York, this is the Central Park in my hometown, Tangerang. Hutan kota BSD is located at Taman Tekno south from taman Makan Pahlawan Seribu, Serpong, Tangerang Selatan. With 7.5 hm2 wide this is one of the place where you can find peace in the crowded town, where you can only sit and enjoy the breeze from the high trees around you. Hutan Kota BSD has a jogging track and small house made from greens for you to relax your mind. It has a beautiful bridge at the entrance that across Cisadane River. In here you can also find a lot of various plant. People usually go here alone, with their family, or with their friends to hang out. This place is a little bit crowded at weekend. Hutan Kota BSD opens from 6 am to 6 pm. 

Hutan kota BSD

Boen Tek Bio

            Speaking of Boen Tek Bio Temple, it has a history of how Chinese people arrived in Tangerang. Boen Tek Bio was built from 1750. The Chinese built this temple by charity and name the temple Boen Tek Bio. Boen means Knowledge, Tek means Wisdom, and Bio means a place to pray. At first this temple only made from bamboo with sago palm as its roof. Until the 19^th century where the economy of Tangerang became better and the temple already has so many followers, the Temple was renovated until now.

                The main God of this temple is Aryavalokitesvaraya also known as Kwan Im Goddess. The unique ritual of this temple is once every twelve year (at Dragon Year Chinese Calendar), the temple celebrate the day with ‘arak-arakan Joli Ka Lam Ya, Kwan Tek Kun, and Wayang Potehi’. This ritual has already take place since 1911 and has become such an amazing show for people all over Indonesia.

Boen Tek Bio

Pasar Lama

               This is the place where we usually hang out. Pasar Lama, Tangerang located in Kisamaun Street is the Chinatown of Tangerang. This place provide you from food, clothes, grocery, and many more. And the special about this place is you find all the shop still in traditional way. No Supermarket, No Malls, everything in here is traditional. At night this place is very crowded with Food. From traditional food like Es Podeng, Asinan, Es Putri Salju until international street food like Roti Cane, Laksa, Siomay, Dumplings, and so many more. Once in a month Pasar Lama held a culinary tour of the night

             And for me, this is the place where I go eat and hang out with my Friends and the place is still crowded until midnight.  

   Pasar Lama Festival Night

Pasar Lama of Culinary

 Laksa Tangerang

                 Tangerang typical food history this one is Laksa Tangerang has been growing since hundreds of years ago. Laksa in the 1970s peddled many traveling traders in Tangerang. Now Laksa traders can be found permanently lined up on Jalan Muhammad Yamin, in front of "Penitentiary Women" Tangerang City

                 Laksa Tangerang is different from other laksa - laksa. Laksa here made from the main ingredient is a kind of vermicelli but thick like spaghetti but made of rice. Then these ingredients doused with laksa sauce cooked from green beans, potatoes, coconut milk and chicken broth are yellowish. In addition, also provided additional chicken or egg chicken. Before serving this dish is given a sprinkling of chopped leaf chives are small.

                 There are two types of Taksa Tangerang namely Laksa Nyai and Laksa Nyonya. Laksa Nyai made by indigenous Tangerang while Laksa Nyonya made by peranakan Chinese in Tangerang.

 

Laksa Tangerang

 Chio Tau

 

Chio Tau

              In addition to the tourist attractions and culinary above, Tangerang has a unique culture What is called Chio Tau is nothing but a procession of a traditional Chinese Peranakan wedding ceremony. Wedding procession is generally not no longer done by modern couples, as the shift of culture, limitations of cost, environment, and so forth. Who still maintains the tradition of the wedding ceremony of Chio Tau is a peranakan Chinese in the area of Tangerang and Bekasi, especially among the old peranakan community. Even in mainland China, it is said that these rituals are extinct.

              In Indonesia, Chio Tau is also an art and culture of ethnic Chinese assimilation in this country. This traditional wedding dress has a characteristic form of the use of head makeup and dozens of skewers, green deeds, and red cloth patterned with gold embroidered for the bride. The proof of the process of cultural assimilation is the use of a flowering flower condiment powder, which is absorbed from Betawi culture.              The unique part of this wedding ritual is on the wedding dress. The bride will be assisted by a makeup and a kenek (makeup maid) who prepares the offerings until the whole series of events is completed. The ceremony begins with the two women's parents led by a makeup artist, praying in front of Sam Kay's table (the offering table) to beg the blessing of the Creator. After that the prayers continued in the house, in front of the ancestral table. When finished, then veil attached to the bride before he was picked up the groom and his family.

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