Celebrating the sea in a sinking city - Community
Harriet Crisp (The Jakarta Post)
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Wed, November 9, 2022
Along Jakarta’s ever-transforming coastline, fishing communities welcome the months of September through December by giving thanks to the oceans, with young people taking the helm in holding on to tradition.
Suppose you existed to be anywhere along the North Jakarta coastline over the past few weeks. In that case, you might have noticed small armadas of intelligent fishing boats decorated with batik, flags and dangling snacks pass by, throwing sugar canes into the sea and placing plates of primitive food and buffalo heads onto bamboo platforms and boats afore coming together in a chaotic circle and capsizing them into the sea.
If you did, you caught the Nadran, or pesta laut (sea festival), the annual ritual practiced by fishermen and their families to give thanks to the sea for their livelihoods and the future. The ceremony, which has been going on for generations heath Java’s northern coastline between September and December, has adapted to life in one of the world’s largest coastal cities.
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