Warok Suromenggolo from Ponorogo Indonesia

Warok story Ponorogo, East Java, starting with the magic figure legend. Changing times exposes the many dilemmas that culture. Warok concept was challenged to be reinterpreted according spirit of the times.
Warok Suromenggolo, thought to have lived at the beginning of the Majapahit Empire, began the story of the mystical. Warok it has a drawstring magic that can kill your opponent. Another inheritance, luyung bang, could raise the dead.

Narrated daughter named Cempluk Suromenggolo love with Subroto, the son of the ruler of Psychology. However, Suminten, daughter Warok Surogentho, also enamored with the same young man. Both warok that was fought in defense of his son, and the holy drawstring menang.Kisah Suromenggolo Suromenggolo spawned the legend who became the pride of superiority warok community. Warok imaged as strong a respected group. However, this advantage actually exposes them to the socio-political tensions.
The tension stems from the birth reog by Demat Ki Ageng Kuthu Suryongalam, government representatives in Ponorogo Majapahit kingdom during the reign of Bhre Kertabumi who holds UB V (1468-1478). Kuthu judge, the king failed to lead the people to the fair because it is influenced empress.
Kuthu warok gather to be trained as a soldier. However, the intention of treason nevertheless carried out, and the arts were invited to play warok reog. In Barongan, the king is depicted as head of a tiger, a peacock feathered beautifully ridden. That's the subtle insinuation that the king had been driven empress.
Warok Tobroni (70) from Cokromenggalan revealed, the Dutch attempted to divide warok not to rebel. Politics divide at impera managed to create enmity among warok, and it lasted until late independence. Warok attached to the image of violence.
Islam entered Ponorogo Reog warok and also utilize as a means of propaganda, as did Ki Ageng Red and Bethoro Kathong. Warok jargon interpreted in a religious perspective. Warok word itself referred to the Arab vocabulary, wara ', which means the righteous and pious.
Political instrument
The bloody conflict in 1965 dragged warok Ponorogo in tension. According to researchers at the University of Jember tradition (Unej), Ayu Sutarto, political parties and utilize warok reog to mobilize the masses. Warok and reog split into several groups hostile.
Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) infiltrated sequence Reog Ponorogo (BRP), while the Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI) holds Reog Barisan Nasional (Bren). There is also the Branch Art Reog Religion (Chakra) which is affiliated to the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU).
Eerie atmosphere, many warok a victim. They collided magic or escape. Some warok survivors of that event by relying on science kanuragan. Mbah Kakuk Monday (83), warok Fur origin Lor village, District Jambon, storytelling, a lot of people besieged his home ever. "I survived the cast wirid science disappeared," he said.
Old Order changing political mobilization of mass politics (floating mass) in the New Order era. Warok still targeted as a political vehicle. Party utilizing traditional media to express political messages. Barongan and sudden peacock often appears in the campaign with the dominant color of the party.
Identity
The government is currently directing Ponorogo Reog warok and regional cultural identity. Art reog standardized, as in the book Art Reog Ponorogo Basic Guidelines. Since 1994, the government held a festival reog and Gerebeg Shura.
According to Art High School teacher Wilwatikta Surabaya, Task Kumorohadi, images and reog warok increasingly oriented stage shows. Reog assessed from the aspect of dramaturgy, dance, and fashion that completely uniform, sweet and sparkling.
"Warok and reog in the commodity package tours. Warok as superior human spirit and as an expression of folk art reog receding," he said.
According warok Sumoroto origin, Mbah Wo Cats (70), should not be carried away warok times, but firmly give wewarah (teaching) the noble values ​​of the society. Warok also required to master the science kaweruh (spiritual wisdom), to pursue the true humanity (reh kamanungsan true), and warok be a source of inner peace.
Warok-old warok an important node to explore the cultural identity of Ponorogo. Their presence was confirmed indigenous values, aesthetics, and science of the past-an increasingly desperate cap and uniform all aspects of life.
However, warok-old warok in time will die. If the next generation fails to capture and preserve the spirit warok, this tradition could be history. Many people who wear clothes warok Ponorogo, but more difficult to find warok.