Pangkak
pangkak traditional kangeanese rice harvest festival tradition ceremony native kangean island ceremony believed indigenous pure form spiritualistic gratitude towards god pangkak could refers singing style performed throughout ceremony well resembles similarity capella pangkak also later became betrothal ritual among kangeanese people meeting agricultural life cycle ritual make sense celebration fertility found pangkak also implies especially fertile marriage connection pangkak engagement process made explicit lyric pangkak song tune calm mind engaged one bridetobe come home see you’ll find spirit” pangkak ceremony often accompanied traditional art using gendeng dumik mean little gendang traditional drum sometimes pencak silat also performed — mantra chanted pangkak proposal ritual local pawang type shaman pangkak derived kangeanese word aranggak aranggĕk paranggak paranggĕk mean cut cutting referred reaping process paddy rice harvesting activity kangeanese people seren taun