Art Sunda "Buhun" Kian Left

Various types of traditional arts, especially native Sundanese Sundanese arts Buhun almost extinct as a result many left their own community. As the art that the richness of local culture, art Buhun Sundanese continue to lose players due to his artistic successors received less public place and respected, as well as the urgency of modern pop art is considered more attractive.

Professor of Language and Literature Education University of Indonesia, Prof.. Dr. Yus Rusyana said the circumstances of the current traditional Sundanese Buhun gradually began to disappear. "Today the younger generation prefer art that comes from the outside than the original art belongs to the nation itself," he said, in a consultation event character of Sunda, Sundanese Buhun Digging Roots Culture, on Monday (14 / 3) in the Hall of Culture and Tourism, West Java, Road RE Martadinata 209 Bandung.


The event was attended by a number of figures Sundanese art and culture, as Prof.. Saini KM, Prof. Dr. Yudibrata Karna, Dra. Hj. Popong Otje Djunjunan, Nano S., Euis Suhaenah M. Hum, and Administrator PB Pasundan Center Daum.

Kang-Yus Yus Rusyana thus familiarly called, confirmed that the current Sundanese art and culture continues to shift. Even Buhun Sundanese art which is already difficult to find the ancestral art. In fact, the art of Sundanese culture Buhun known to be very rich in value. Starting from the relationship between man and God, man and other mausia, until the human relationship with nature.

For that, Yus strongly supports efforts to preserve Sundanese art and culture. "If it is not anticipated by the conservation measures, the richness of that tradition will live to be history," he said.
While Dra. Hj. Popong Otje Djundjunan say, to excite the perpetrators Buhun Sundanese art and culture need to be given such a stimulus. "So far, appreciation of the performers are very rare, but the artists do not ask for compensation in the form of matter to its efforts to preserve the art from generation to generation. They just want any kind of recognition from the government, "he said.

Buhun Sundanese cultural arts community are being abandoned because it is considered monotonous so it does not have the selling power of interest. The condition is exacerbated by the lack of public support and capital from the government so it can rarely be shown again in the community.

To preserve Sundanese art and culture that continues to disappear Buhun, Ny. Popong suggested that organized activities like an exhibition or spectacle officially. Art that was held not only in the form of art ibing (gerak-red.) but also art tabeuh (o'clock), and the art of Sora (voice).

In addition to determining that art is the art of Sundanese Buhun need to set criteria. "To determine the current very difficult because of Sundanese arts have adopted many arts from outside," he said.

The same thing was said to be artists, cultural and art teacher at STSI Bandung, S. Nano. He said the artists Sunda Buhun today is not very appreciated anymore, not only by his own people but also by the government. "If it's still got a place, when the stage is definitely going to watch. Local governments are also often considered the artist becomes a burden, "he said.

Nano is said, in a few years back Buhun Sundanese art and culture can be guaranteed to be antique if it is not immediately preserved and developed again. "For that would understand the art of Sundanese culture Buhun not associated with the creed or religion which is often a fence between the permissible and not," said Nano. (A-87) ***

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