Wayang garing without the accompaniment of gamelan music and song of the singer, may be difficult to imagine its shape. For those who have never watched, maybe it was a boring performance art, not lively and garing feel (dry).
Understandably, grip wayang show for it always involves a gamelan (musician), singer (swarawati), and the mastermind (Barata interpreter). In fact, later emerging "trend" has featured collaborations with leather wayang comedians, dancers, and singers.
Wayang garing without the accompaniment of gamelan and singer who go against the flow of new trend is called wayang garing. Wayang garing is one of the wayang arts born in Serang, Banten, which until now often appear in the remote rural areas.
The term "wayang garing" was given the community who see it as a wayang show art that is unique and different from the usual wayang show.
"Garing dry meaning, no nothing. If the river is said to dry, no water means baseball. Similarly, the wayang garing, "said Faith Prijatna Kamadjaja Noer R WP, Chairman of Padalangan Indonesia (Pepadi) Bantam.
"Called garing because this wayang musical baseball there, along with 15 panjaknya gamelan, and there sindennya baseball," added Kajali (57), the only wayangeer garing left in Serang District. In this case, the role of musician and singer concurrently by the wayangeer.
Therefore, in addition to telling a story of wayangs, narration and dialogue wayang, wayangeer must also accompany themselves with the "gamelan" which sounded through his mouth. One that imitated the sound of the gamelan with wayangeer's mouth, as exemplified Kajali, "Dung dung pack meat, dung ging ... ger. Ging pack Dung dung, dung ging ... ger. "
So did the song is usually sung singer, also sung the mastermind. You can imagine how busy mouth of the wayangeer garing when staging a wayang play. With an average duration of each wayang story about four hours, during which he also had to "ramble" relentless. "If more tired, we usually setelin Sundanese songs through the tape," said Kajali.
Except for gamelan and singer, all the equipment to hold the wayang garing relatively similar to Javanese leather wayang show. Wayangs made from animal garings. Equipment for a performer is also the same, namely kecrek, mobile, screen, gedebok (banana trunk), and light.
In terms of story, also a standard garing wayang with wayang prototype. Play the story was equally rooted in the stories in the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Lokapala. Kajali claimed 120 familiar story of wayang stories, but there are some stories that often appear as many fans loved.
Story-serita were some quite familiar, like Rama Pond; some other stories might sound a bit odd, for example Pendhawa Divided Four, Bangbang Sun, Astrajingga Sues Heritage, Pancawala Matok Srengenge.
Prijatna added some garing wayang stories, among others, taken from the Babad Banten, such as the Aryan Dilla. According to him, the story tells the journey Mandalika Prince Arya, son of Sultan Maulana Yusuf (sultan of Bantam II), from mother concubines.
"The story was considered sacred, so before staging the play, I usually recommend that Kajali first pilgrimage to the tomb of Prince Mandalika in Kampung Kroja," said Prijatna.
Although derived from the Babad Banten, the story of Aryan Dilla raised in the wayang story is mixed with legend.
It differentiates from the wayang wayang garing garing, in addition to gamelan and singer, is a matter of language. The language used in the Java language is a wayang garing Serang. Kekawin or suluk song to song-song language is Sundanese.
However, it is not uncommon language is a mix between Sundanese and Javanese Serang. One example kekawin reads, "Mount curtain so the facade. Yaa wayang wong, wayang wayangeer profess Maring, Maring profess wayangeer wayangs, nature sepita kelire wong. Ging pack Dung dung, dung ging ... ger. "
While the examples of narrative that uses the Java language Serang, like "Sinten Kang City Ngastinaraya medalipun so state, at Endi kocapa King Suyudana kasebatipun kaliyan Kumbayana Begawan, Senapati kaliyan miwah Duke of Karna, the great Mendura Balarama, and Tumenggung Jayadratha. Sapiye-piye sakpangandikane, mboten wonten kang ngabuka voice ... "and so on.
IN Indonesia, the wayang garing yet widely recognized as a distinct genre in the tradition padalangan in the country.
According Prijatna, there are currently five types of wayangs are recognized its existence, even by the UN agency for education, science, and culture (UNESCO), the wayang show Sundanese, Javanese wayang kulit, wayang Menak (Cirebon and Banjar), Parwa wayang (Bali ), and wayang Sasak (Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara).
The five types of wayangs that have been established UNESCO as masterpieces of oral cultural heritage of human civilization nonbendawi (Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity). As for the wayang garing, let alone recognized at world level, at national level are still not many know.
DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, through the website of Culture and the Museum of Jakarta, claimed wayang garing as a part traditional Betawi art treasures that have been destroyed. The claim was denied padalangan activist and observer of art in Banten, including Prijatna.
According to them, wayangs garing is a typical traditional arts Serang District. Prijatna said the unilateral claim by the Jakarta Provincial Government of garing wayang similar to their claims to art ondel-ondel the first born in Walantaka, Serang.
If art was declared extinct in Jakarta, wayang garing still be found in Serang, Banten, to this day. Behind it was still there, namely Kajali who lived in Kampung Wadgalih, rogue Village, District Carenang, Serang District.
On certain days, garing wayang can be seen in eastern Serang regency, as Carenang, helter, Tirtayasa, and areas that used to enter the territory Kawedanan Ciruas. Art is usually held the citizens during a celebration of a wedding or circumcision season.
