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Evening getting late, the clock struck 21:00 pm, but dozens of young people in the village of Weasel River, District Aluh Aluh, Banjar regency, still look vibrant shed their rice harvest this afternoon.In a garden that only measuring 4 × 6 meters, they jogged around a purun mat on which there is some yellowing rice mounds.After the rice separately with the trunk, there is another group in charge of putting it in sacks. The group is also required to make up the rice in the barn."Merapai", that's the name of the villagers on how to shed their rice. In the language of Banjar, "merapai" means to separate. Usually "merapai" performed after evening prayers, because it is the young people had gathered after a full day they move in the field.From "Merapai" This event started looking for a mate. Understandably, the young people who come to harvest the rice into the village usually from neighboring villages, in addition to earn a living, the other goal is to find a life partner. When "merapai" rice they met eyes with the opposite sex, then fell in love and there was matchmaking.No one knows since when did the tradition of "merapai" was turned into the arena looking for a mate. Some villagers claimed, the tradition had been there since their parents first.Residents just know, when they turn yellow rice in paddy fields should be ready to hunt "pengataman" that people are willing to take a wage cut the rice. Usually "pengataman" that once served as perapai rice.Mostly, "pengataman" rice came from neighboring villages, such as Tabunganen, Kurau and most distant from the village of Tabuk River. Generally, they are young people who do have the expertise to harvest rice."I have dozens of years of living in this village, my mother said merapai culture while seeking a mate had been there before I was born," said Hami, a resident of the village.According to him, many young people in the village who meet a mate as "merapai" rice, there are married to each person taking wages for harvesting rice and some are married to the owner of the rice.Usually weddings take place after the rice harvest is over, because at that time the bride has married the capital obtained from the harvest wages. Marriage proposal starts from the groom to the bride's male relatives.Residents who are married will be looking for another job, the profession as well as harvest laborers perapai rice would be delivered to their peers who do not get a mate.Fitri (17), was a teenager in the village who was able to meet her idol boy from "merapai" the rice. After Lebaran their romance will be forwarded to the marriage."Besides me, some teens also get a life partner, they also promised to marry after Lebaran," ujarnyaa.Crowded At HarvestWeasel River is a small village, population less than two hundred souls. Besides farming, most residents work as fishermen.No access road connecting the village to the neighboring villages. the only means of transportation is the main local kelotok (small motorized boats).Keletok was also a mainstay of local residents to buy groceries Aluh Aluh, the capital district a distance of less than 10 km. Maybe because it was considered too small, on a map of the village at the mouth of the Barito River is also not listed.But when the harvest season comes between July and August, the village's original silent suddenly become crowded, because of the immigrant population that will do the harvest.In this harvest season, each resident owners of rice fields ready for harvest, will hold "pengataman" between 10 and 45 people, according to the land area to be harvested.If each house accommodates at least 10 people, that is, in the village of the addition of the Weasel River during harvest up to 10 times. "Anyway, if the harvest, the village turned into a town Weasel River, because day and night are always crowded," said Megawati, Weasel River resident who also holds about 10 people "pengataman".Nights are usually silent, turned out to be crowded by singing and playfully bantering teenagers who are eroded rice while searching for a mate.At night time almost all backyard shed their activities are rice and ended before midnight, after the young people felt tired and had istrihat, for morning duty yellow rice harvest is waiting.Just Enough to EatImmigrants crowded into the Weasel River village at harvest time arrives, a new spirit for the villagers to grow crops, although the result was not able to improve their welfare.Megawati, a resident of Weasel River, which has a land area of two acres, disclose, when calculated from the results of farming is not in accordance with the energy they spend, and even tend to lose.How not to two hectares of rice fields, only able to produce about Rp6, 9 million. From these results will be deducted for the cost of buying seeds, planting and pengataman wages around 6 million.Expenditure occurred during pengataman season, because the owner fields must accommodate at least 10 people, both men and women to harvest for at least 10 days.During the 10 days, the host must prepare three meals a day. Not to mention the tea and cakes were also to be prepared as a food supplement for its rice harvesters."Actually, if the calculated results we can minimal, but we were still happy because it's harvest season, a blessing marriages for young people here," he said.
Evening getting late, the clock struck 21:00 pm, but dozens of young people in the village of Weasel River, District Aluh Aluh, Banjar regency, still look vibrant shed their rice harvest this afternoon.In a garden that only measuring 4 × 6 meters, they jogged around a purun mat on which there is some yellowing rice mounds.After the rice separately with the trunk, there is another group in charge of putting it in sacks. The group is also required to make up the rice in the barn."Merapai", that's the name of the villagers on how to shed their rice. In the language of Banjar, "merapai" means to separate. Usually "merapai" performed after evening prayers, because it is the young people had gathered after a full day they move in the field.From "Merapai" This event started looking for a mate. Understandably, the young people who come to harvest the rice into the village usually from neighboring villages, in addition to earn a living, the other goal is to find a life partner. When "merapai" rice they met eyes with the opposite sex, then fell in love and there was matchmaking.No one knows since when did the tradition of "merapai" was turned into the arena looking for a mate. Some villagers claimed, the tradition had been there since their parents first.Residents just know, when they turn yellow rice in paddy fields should be ready to hunt "pengataman" that people are willing to take a wage cut the rice. Usually "pengataman" that once served as perapai rice.Mostly, "pengataman" rice came from neighboring villages, such as Tabunganen, Kurau and most distant from the village of Tabuk River. Generally, they are young people who do have the expertise to harvest rice."I have dozens of years of living in this village, my mother said merapai culture while seeking a mate had been there before I was born," said Hami, a resident of the village.According to him, many young people in the village who meet a mate as "merapai" rice, there are married to each person taking wages for harvesting rice and some are married to the owner of the rice.Usually weddings take place after the rice harvest is over, because at that time the bride has married the capital obtained from the harvest wages. Marriage proposal starts from the groom to the bride's male relatives.Residents who are married will be looking for another job, the profession as well as harvest laborers perapai rice would be delivered to their peers who do not get a mate.Fitri (17), was a teenager in the village who was able to meet her idol boy from "merapai" the rice. After Lebaran their romance will be forwarded to the marriage."Besides me, some teens also get a life partner, they also promised to marry after Lebaran," ujarnyaa.Crowded At HarvestWeasel River is a small village, population less than two hundred souls. Besides farming, most residents work as fishermen.No access road connecting the village to the neighboring villages. the only means of transportation is the main local kelotok (small motorized boats).Keletok was also a mainstay of local residents to buy groceries Aluh Aluh, the capital district a distance of less than 10 km. Maybe because it was considered too small, on a map of the village at the mouth of the Barito River is also not listed.But when the harvest season comes between July and August, the village's original silent suddenly become crowded, because of the immigrant population that will do the harvest.In this harvest season, each resident owners of rice fields ready for harvest, will hold "pengataman" between 10 and 45 people, according to the land area to be harvested.If each house accommodates at least 10 people, that is, in the village of the addition of the Weasel River during harvest up to 10 times. "Anyway, if the harvest, the village turned into a town Weasel River, because day and night are always crowded," said Megawati, Weasel River resident who also holds about 10 people "pengataman".Nights are usually silent, turned out to be crowded by singing and playfully bantering teenagers who are eroded rice while searching for a mate.At night time almost all backyard shed their activities are rice and ended before midnight, after the young people felt tired and had istrihat, for morning duty yellow rice harvest is waiting.Just Enough to EatImmigrants crowded into the Weasel River village at harvest time arrives, a new spirit for the villagers to grow crops, although the result was not able to improve their welfare.Megawati, a resident of Weasel River, which has a land area of two acres, disclose, when calculated from the results of farming is not in accordance with the energy they spend, and even tend to lose.How not to two hectares of rice fields, only able to produce about Rp6, 9 million. From these results will be deducted for the cost of buying seeds, planting and pengataman wages around 6 million.Expenditure occurred during pengataman season, because the owner fields must accommodate at least 10 people, both men and women to harvest for at least 10 days.During the 10 days, the host must prepare three meals a day. Not to mention the tea and cakes were also to be prepared as a food supplement for its rice harvesters."Actually, if the calculated results we can minimal, but we were still happy because it's harvest season, a blessing marriages for young people here," he said.
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