The Preservation Effort of Sundanese Traditional Game Kaulinan Barudak for Increasing Local Culture Resilience

Abstract

Sundanese traditional game Kaulinan Barudak has been forgotten due to the development of technology that offers modern android-based games. It is also influenced by the role of parents who provide their children gadget instead of introducing traditional game. As a result children spend more time playing their phone instead of playing with their friends. To overcome that issue, it is necessary to preserve sundanese traditional game Kaulinan Barudak. There is community called Korang Bumi In Cibiru village, Cicantayan district, Sukabumi regency, West Java province, which concern with this phenomenon. Here are five preservation effort of sundanese traditional game kaulinan barudak: first, socializing sundanese traditional game in Korang Bumi community; second, providing some facilities for children to play sundanese traditional game; third, educating children the ways how to play sundanese traditional game; fourth, organizing festivals such as “Festival Egrang” and The 10^th sport and traditional games Olympics in Padjadjaran University in 2007. These efforts has implications for local cultural resilience: cibiru village become an icon of Egrang village, the awareness of possessing sundanese traditional games is very increasing that creates a sense of pride, and traditional games are played as the preservation effort.