Bambu Gila from Maluku

Mantra, frankincense, and seven strong men to fight against a piece of bamboo with a length of about 2.5 meters and a diameter of 8 cm an attractive scenery that you can enjoy while watching 'bamboo crazy' in Maluku. After watching this show, you will experience the supernatural which may rarely or never felt before. This dance is also known as the Reed Crazy or Bara Suwen. This performance can be found in two villages namely Liang, sub Salahatu, and the village of Mamala, sub Leihitu, Central Maluku district. In North Maluku province, the mystical attraction of this can be found in several areas in the city of Ternate.

To start the show handler burning incense in a coconut shell with a spell in the 'language of the land' which is one of the traditional language of Maluku. Then the incense smoke exhaled on bamboo poles to be used. If using the ginger is chewed by the handler with a chant and then sprayed into the bamboo. Incense or ginger function is to call the spirits of the ancestors that gave the mystical power of the bamboo. The spirits that make bamboo rods as if craze or shaken and the increasingly strong and difficult to control.

Typically, in a variety of attractions that involve a mystical air, humans are possessed by a mystical spirit but in this dance called mystical spirit transferred into the bamboo. When the handler chant repeatedly, the handler then shouted "Crazy, crazy, crazy!" Things crazy bamboo began. The music starts playing when the seven men who hold the bamboo began to feel the shock of bamboo crazy. Bamboo looks to move itself when the handler exhaling smoke and spitting ginger to bamboo sticks. The men who embrace bamboo began removing their power to control the strength of bamboo shocks. When the rhythm of the music started to be accelerated, bamboo dance to gain weight and strength in it. Things to do crazy bamboo fall swoon ended with the players in the arena show. The unique thing of this show, crazy bamboo mystical power will not go away just before being fed fire burned through the paper.

Bamboo used is a local bamboo. However, the process of selecting and cutting the bamboo is not arbitrary, because it takes a special treatment. The handler must first ask permission of the spirits that inhabit the bamboo forest. Bamboo is then cut by traditional customs. Bamboo is cleaned and washed with coconut oil and then decorated with fabric on each end. In the past, bamboo directly taken from Mount Gamalama, volcanoes in Ternate, North Maluku. Currently, bamboo dance crazy to learn and play outside the island of Maluku.

Crazy bamboo dance tradition is believed to have begun long before the Muslims and the Christians go to these islands. Currently mystical dance is performed only in a few small villages. Seeing this dance is a unique spiritual experience. Chanting the mantra of the handler and wasps drums create a show that can not be found elsewhere in the world. Especially if you come to dance with bamboo crazy, making this experience difficult to forget.