The Curse Of the Joko Bandung (Kisah Candi Prambanan)
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Iqbal Nugraha
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Saturday, October 8, 2016
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A
long time ago, there were two kingdoms. They were Pengging Kingdom and
Prambanan Kingdom. The king were fighting. They were at war! Pengging's king
was Joko Bandung. He was very strong and powerful. He had great martial art
skill. He led the soldiers and fought bravely. Meanwhile, Prabu Boko, the king
of Prambanan sent a giant to fight against Joko Bandung. The Giants name was
Bandawasa. Bandawasa was very big. Joko Bandung was not afraid with the giant.
They were fighting. And finally Joko Bandung won the fight.
Before
he died, Bandawasa's spirit joined Joko Bandung's spirit. That made Joko
Bandung became more powerful. He then added Bandawasa's name into his name. His
name changed into Joko Bandung Bandawasa. Joko Bandung and his soldiers were
attacking the palace of Prambanan Kingdom. Joko Bandung was looking for Prabu
Boko. He wanted to kill the king of Prambanan Kingdom. Joko Bandung was more
powerful. He killed Prabu Boko. Joko Bandung occupied the palace. He asked all
Prabu Boko's family to gather. He met Prabu Boko's beautiful daughter. Her name
was Roro Jonggrang, he fell in love with her. He wanted to marry her. Roro
Jonggrang did not want to marry him. She hated Joko Bandung. However she was
afraid and did not have any courage to refuse the marriage proposal. She had an
idea how to refuse the proposal. She would ask Joko Bandung to build 1.000
temples only in one night. If he could build the temples, Roro Jonggrang would
marry him. Joko Bandung agreed. He accepted the challenge. He was not worried,
he would asked the genies and the spirits to help him. Joko Bandung and his
genies started to work. They build the temples one by one.
Roro
Jonggrang was really worried. She knew Joko Bandung could not finish building
1.000 temples before sun rose. She was thinking very hard. She had to find a
way how to stop the genies and the spirit for building the temples. Suddenly
she had an idea. She asked all the girls to make a lot of noise by grinding the
rice in the mortar. She also asked them to make fire. She hopped that the
spirits and the genies would think that sun was going to rise. It worked! The
noise and the fire woke the cocks up. The cocks were crowing. The spirits and
the genies thought that morning would come soon. And they also thought the sun
would rise soon. The spirits and the genies were afraid of the sunlight. They
left Joko Bandung alone. Joko Bandung was very angry! He knew Roro Jonggrang
was playing a trick on him.
"Why did you do that? If you do
not want to marry me, why don't you just say it? You are just looking for an
excuse to refuse me!" said Joko Bandung.
He continued, "You are so
stubborn like a stone. I curse you to become a statue!"
Joko Bandung's magic power had changed Roro
Jonggrang into a statue! Since then people named the temples that the spirit
and the genies build as Sewu Temple. And the people also named the Prambanan
Temple as Roro Jonggrang Temple.
Bagus terima kasih.
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