Literature Upacara Ngaben Diganti Upacara Kremasi

From BASAbaliWiki
20230509T013532617Z948801.jpg
Wikithon Winner
0
Vote
Title (Other local language)
Photograph by
Author(s)
Affiliation
SMA NEGERI 2 ABIANSEMAL
Reference for photograph
Subject(s)
    Reference
    Related Places
    Event
    Related scholarly work
    Reference
    Competition
    Oneday


    Add your comment
    BASAbaliWiki welcomes all comments. If you do not want to be anonymous, register or log in. It is free.

    What do you think about Bali today?

    Description


    In English

    Last night, I heard an obituary of my passing neighbor. I was confused. Usually, if someone passed away, the banjar officer would knock the wooden bell on the banjar building. Last night, however, there was neither announcement nor knocks. My father said, the mourning family decided to cremate the body at the crematorium (not organized by the community). When viewed from the cost involved, cremating the body at a crematorium is practical and cheap. A “Ngaben” ceremony, on the other hand, costs a lot of money because there are a lot of rituals to be performed. In a crematorium, however, the ceremony is completed in a day. If this trend keeps going on, the “Ngaben” tradition in Bali will gradually perish. I hope the “Ngaben” tradition is still preserved so that it won’t be lost due to the existence of crematoriums.

    In Balinese

    Dibi sanja tiang ningeh orta ada pisaga tiange ane sing nu. Tiang bingung biasane yening ada anak sing nu, ada munyin kulkul di banjare. Nanging, dibi tusing ada pengarah utawi munyin kulkule. Orahange ajak bapan tiange, keluargane ento makremasi. Yening tolih saking prabeya ane katelahang, makremasi ento tusing liu nelahin prabeya tur ngaenang kramane ngancan praktis . Malianan teken ngaben , akeh rentetan upacara sane kalaksanayang . Nanging yening makremasi, awai gen suba pragat upacarane. Yening niki terus kalaksanayang pastika ngranayang tradisi ngaben ring Bali ngancan ical kawentenannyane. Tiang dot pesan apang tradisi ngabenne ento tetep kalestariang mangda ten ilang ulian kremasine.

    In Indonesian

    Kemarin sore saya mendengar berita ada tetangga saya yang meninggal dunia. Saya bingung, biasanya ketika ada orang meninggal, ada suara kulkul di banjar, namun, kemarin tidak asa arahan atau suara kulkul. Ayah saya mengatakan bahwa keluarga itu akan dikremasi. Apabila dilihat dari biaya yang digabiskan, kremasi itu tidak menghabiskan banyak uang dan membuat warga semakin praktis, berbeda dengan ngaben, banyak rentetan upacara yang dilaksanakan. Namun apabila dikremasi, upacara sudah selesai sehari saja. Apabila ini terus dilakukan maka pasti membuat tradisi ngaben di Bali semakin hilang keberadaannya. Saya ingin sekali agar tradisi ngaben itu tetap dilestarikan, agar tidak hilang akibat kremasi.