Facts on Coconut Plant Part 2

Stem

If you ever spend your holiday in Yogyakarta, go southern part and you will reach Bantul area, a small town near coastal plain where you see a huge number of coconut plantations. There are still found some constructions with logs of coconut trunk. The old wood is strong enough, endures both extreme climate and insect attact. Traditional rice pestles prove to have been made from the wood, too.

People of Java call it ‘glugu’. Being used in constructions, the chopped stem goes to a saw mill. Workers saw and shape in various kinds of sizes. When you build a house and in need in some ‘glugu’, you may go to the mill and pay some money for having them. The mill’s runner will deliver to your house on a chart. You can also take an advantage of the skin of the stem which is called ‘tatal’ as a fire-setter material for hose works.

Roots

Roots, which are fibrous, are used by many people for making fire when the day is cold. They are first exposed to the sun to get them dried. It usually takes no less than a week until they are sent to a traditionally-made stove in homes.

Lowest Part of Stem

After being chopped, a tree commonly has it lowest part left in the ground.  The Javanese call it ‘tunggak’. They use it as a material to make ‘kentongan’ (music intrument made of coconut stem). The process to make one has proved to be complicated.

They have to plane, saw, and empty the inner part of the wood. When it is done they carve ornamental decorations and paint it impressively.

‘Kentongan’ making have been reported to be a side job beside cultivating their piece of land as farmers. And this job can give good extra income and artistic satisfaction. They need this instrument as a means of communication among the villagers when they practice the night patrol.

Occasionally, to brad the news or accidentally-happened incidents like flood, earthquake, the man’s passing away, they might strike it in different tunes. That’s the way they got in touch with one another in the past.

The writer, hence, would also like to reason why Indonesian scouting takes coconut bud to refer to the philosophy. It is aimed at the expectation that all young generation should stand straight and firm,  assimilate with the community, and give all use of what they can potentially do for others.

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Written by Bejo

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