18 Comments on “Jaipong or Jaipongan Dance & Bajidoran”

1. Burung Koel says:
   February 11th, 2009 at 9:38 am

   Whatever you might think about that second interpretation, it’s certainly good for the pelvic floor muscles.

2. Lairedion says:
   February 11th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

   Banning Jaipongan is banning Sundanese culture. If he really said this why not change his second name Heryawan to Bin Laden as Heryawan is an un-Islamic Sundanese name.

   The PKS is showing slowly but surely their true colors….

3. schmerly says:
   February 11th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   ‘BK… For me this type of dancing is no problem, but I think the second interpretation will get some old clerics hot under the collar, or elsewhere! And when you compare the two the second dance is hardly what you’d call “traditional” apart from the music.

4. orgindo says:
   February 12th, 2009 at 3:10 am

   These two dances are totally different! He has to somehow make a distinction between those two. Just because one version is bad, doesn’t mean that he has to ban both!

   Now, which one is he banning? First one? XD

5. Berlian Biru says:
   February 12th, 2009 at 8:30 am

   Cor blimey, I do like the non-traditional variety, ooh er, I need to go and have a lie down.

6. schmerly says:
   February 12th, 2009 at 10:55 am

   @BB.. Don’t you get caught enjoying yourself, or the old clerics might bring down a fatwa on you!!

7. hary says:
   February 12th, 2009 at 11:36 am

   I wonder if the good Governor is backtracking or if he actually said it. Either way, the PKS is now starting to show its true form.
   If you think it’s too sexy, don’t watch it!!! at least his vice governor (pun intended) makes some good points.

8. schmerly says:
   February 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   “The PKS statements mark the second time this week the party’s take on morality has been in the spotlight, after a PKS councillor in Jambi Province was seen in a legal massage parlour. A PKS spokesman said the parlour was not providing sexual services, but that married PKS men should only be massaged by blind male masseuses”???

   I don’t think I’d like a blind male masseuse fumbling about in my nether regions, but there again I expect certain people might get a kick out of it! you gotta larff yea?

   Another one from these religious cranks.

   “Just a day after Mujtahid Rahman Yadi, who chairs the Depok-based branch, announced that the party, or PKS, would woo younger voters by distributing chocolates and flowers on Valentine’s Day, party big wigs on the executive board crushed his plans”
   “The plan has been aborted because the Shariah Council bans it. The reason is because [Valentine’s Day] is related to Jewish culture,” Tifatul Sembiring, chairman of the PKS, said on Monday. “We would never celebrate anything that is not in line with Islamic culture.” WTF!!

   Is St valentine Jewish??

9. Burung Koel says:
   February 12th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

   Is St valentine Jewish??

   Probably Roman, although the question is: which Saint Valentine?

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine

10. joao says:
    February 13th, 2009 at 12:05 am

    I like to move it move it! He likes to move it move it! She likes to move it move it! We like to MOVE IT!
    (apparently not Ahmad Heryawan, however…)

11. schmerly says:
    February 13th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Tifatul Sembiring, chairman of the PKS, what a sad old moron, he must have a real empty life, otherwise why is he interfering in everyone else’s, and typically using his interpretation of Islam to justify his stupidity.

12. hary says:
    February 13th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Beacause the poor Chairman is not moving, moving it!!!

13. Riged says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    When PKS Rises, this country will be step to build a giant camp concentration. And the next show, Indonesia will treated as second Iraqi by the west.
    Well… Next ‘clean’s’ imperialism! Can’t wait!

14. Mike Oxblack says:
    February 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Obscenity is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder surely? I, for example, find the kind of bigoted fundamentalist prejudice and cultural vandalism that the PKS are currently espousing to be obscene.

    Jaipongan most certainly is un-Islamic. So what?

15. zekky says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    I dunno, I don’t even find traditional jaipong sexy.
    It’s like banning Silat because women see a man stretch his legs.

16. madrotter says:
    May 16th, 2009 at 2:17 am

    then you’ve never been to jaipong parties out in the kampungs!!

    i went to one in subang a few years back, a circumcision party where they did the lions dance, with very hard, very fast, very cool jaipong absolutely the whole kampung went bonkers, it was fantastic, from the smallest kids to the oldest bapak2, hundreds of ‘em, everybody was dancing like it was a rave party and i was dancing like it was ’94 all over again… and i just love it when i’m at a wedding or a party and all of sudden an 80 year old bapak2 starts dancing to dangdut. i see this happening so often and i love it, they can go on for hours and hours, outlasting and outmoving many youngsters

17. dejavu says:
    May 26th, 2009 at 12:33 am

    To : Ahmad Heryawan and other cranks in PKS….. shame on you

18. Martin says:
    March 16th, 2011 at 11:40 am

    Hi,

    i’d love to see traditional jaipong in Jakarta. I know there are happenings near Jitanegara. My question is when are those?

    I must admit that seeing sinden jaipong live must be quite an experience. This Mela Anjani still performs in Jakarta?

    Cheers

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