Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Aceh’s Saman Dance to Join Batik as Part Of World’s Intangible Heritage: Official

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Aceh’s Saman Dance to Join Batik as Part Of World’s Intangible Heritage: Official

Jakarta Globe, October 20, 2010

Banda Aceh. The traditional Acehnese Saman dance is set for recognition as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco, an Indonesian Culture and Tourism Ministry official said on Tuesday.

Tjetjep Suparman, the ministry’s director general of art and film culture, said the dance was currently in the process of being certified by Unesco.

“The government has consistently lobbied Unesco to officially recognize the Saman dance as an Indonesian contribution to the world’s intangible cultural heritage,” he said.

Tjetjep was speaking during an event in Banda Aceh to inaugurate a new office building for the city’s Historical and Traditional Preservation Society.

He added the government was also trying to get angklung, the bamboo musical instrument from West Java, onto the list.

Already on the list are wayang, batik and the keris, the traditional Javanese ceremonial dagger.

Tjetjep said he hoped that once Saman was recognized by Unesco, it would continue to be cherished by all Acehnese.

Muhammad Nazar, the Aceh deputy governor, previously said his administration had tried for the past two years to get Unesco recognition for the dance.

Speaking at Tuesday’s event, Nazar said the Aceh administration appreciated the central government’s seriousness in lobbying the UN body to get the dance included on the heritage list.

The Saman dance comes from the Gayo highlands of central Aceh, and is popularly known as “the dance of a thousand hands” because of the rapid and dizzying hand movements involved.

It is performed by several dancers (always an even number) kneeling in a row and carrying out in near-perfect time an elaborate series of hand movements and shoulder- and chest-slapping.

The pace starts out slow, then picks up as the performance proceeds, and ends in a rapid staccato of synchronized movement.

Other traditional dances unique to Aceh are the Seudati and Rapa’i Geleng, which, unlike the Saman, have an Islamic rather than cultural origin.

Also unlike the Saman, the other two are religious dances, while the Saman is a celebratory one. The Seudati is often performed as a war dance.

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Abdul Azis Hasan is helping to keep Indonesian culture alive with his traditional dance classes. (Photo courtesy of Abdul Azis Hasan)