
Pura Lingsar complex is a temple built in 1759 during the era of AnakĪgung Gede Ngurah, a descendant of the Karangasem king of Bali, who Will be plentiful, or place them in their shops to boost business. Usually scatter the topat in their fields in the hope that their crops The Kemaliq building, told The Jakarta Post.Īccording to Ramlan, after the event, the remaining topat become a bone of contention and people will fight to bring them home. Strengthens social ties with our Hindu friends,” Ramlan, 38, guardian of Hope that the coming planting season will be fertile. Out after a good harvest, as an expression of thanks to God and with the Tradition has been handed down by our ancestors. The locals believe that the topat used in the war bring blessings. Strengthened ties among the Muslim and Hindu communities there. Which has been carried out for hundreds of years in Lingsar village, has Positions to toss topat back at their rivals. Indigenous Muslim Sasak community in Lombok.Īfter the whistle marking the commencement of hostilities was blown, both groups immediately attacked each other.Ītmosphere became more frenzied as they ran around to avoid topat being

Others gathered in front of the Kemaliq building, a place sacred to the Positions, some of them at the Pura Gaduh Hindu Temple compound, while Men and women and even children were divided into two groups and Lingsar Temple complex on Tuesday afternoon, when hundreds of youths, Topat, or ketupat, are parcels of rice cookedĪn atmosphere of merriment filled the Pura Topat war has become a symbol of brotherhood and unity among residents


Village, West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), on Tuesday. Topat or topat war at the Pura Lingsar Temple complex in Lingsar Hundreds of Muslim and Hindu residents engaged in the traditional Perang Lingsar Temple complex in West Lombok on Tuesday. Praise God and pass the ammunition: Women from the Sasak MuslimĬommunity carry topat before the start of the topat war at the Pura Panca Nugraha, The Jakarta Post, West Lombok | Archipelago | Thu, December 19 2013, 8:38 AM
