Betawi Traditional Games

‘Main Gundu’ Traditional Games

Since the Middle Ages, this game of marble has existed and is often played by aristocrats and nobles. This game is not only famous among our people, in the country of origin of Asterisk, France, but this game is also viral, and they call it Petanque. The difference is that if the marbles game uses a small mound, Pentaque requires two relatively large balls of teak wood and steel.

Betawi children's games are known in the Marunda area, North Jakarta. This game is only played by boys aged around 7-12 years and is played in the open. The minimum number of players is two people. This game comes from the elements of two words, namely gundu, and charioteer. Gundu means "marbles or keneker," a round object made of glass or porcelain. The coachman comes from the word ngrusir, which means "to order to go far in various ways, if in this game by flicking or flicking the opponent's mound far away." This type of coachman gundu game has existed since the Dutch colonial period; since the 1950s, this game began to disappear.

Players throw mounds as their gacoan in turns; the bank closer to the available hole must repel the opponent's mound. For opponents whose rises have been driven far away, they must poke the stacks with their index fingers to insert their banks into the hole. He allows shoving his pile three times, and if in 3 shovels he cannot also put his rise into the hole, the next player is allowed to throw his mound far away. If he experiences being kicked out by the opponent five times, he is declared defeated.

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