MANIK CAVE

LOCATION :

          Manik Cave is located sumanding, keling sub-district, jepara regency for about 5 Km and near by Songgolangit waterfall.
If we want to visit that area, we must be careful because the street is slippery, steep and sheer.

LEGEND:
  
There are two caves near standing. But, one cave position under waterfall.
One of them in the cave used Begawan Manikyoso to acquire magical power. But now many people used to acquire magical power to reached their wishes.

 

 

Post by: Cholie.takkyza JTIC.

TRITIP CAVE

LOCATION :

          Ujung watu village, keling sub-district or 45 Km North of Jepara city near by Portuguese fortress.

LEGEND :

          A long time ago, tritip cave used by mbah joyo kusumo to acquire magical power then people called “petilasan place”. Every Thursday night given “sesajen” content sugar drink and coffee. But every wage Thursday night that sesajen adds young coconut and red-white porridge. Around this area any wood boat. That boat is mbah joyo kusumo ascetic place. But now, the boat which located in tritip cave lost a part because people who visited that cave used to campfire and the others.
Usually Visitor came on wage Thursday night so that their wish will be true after do that to acquire magical power over there though mediator by mbah joyo kusumo to God

By: Cholie Takkyza.doc

 

SELAYAR MINA BEACH, the Jepara Mangrove seed.

 

This beach located in Ujung piring Jambu village sub-district Mlonggo, 17 Km northside from Jepara City center. there are many fisherman here. they are sailing to look for fish almost of them going to karimunjawa island which gone through during on night from this beach.

     

We also find mangrove in this beach. wide of mangrove is 20 ha with seed Rhizopora Sp So this area Potential enough to be developed as target of tourism place beside as conservation farm ( natural protection) / coast of abrasion.

"Alamoya" Water Boom of Jepara

         Water Boom Alamoya is one of swimming pool residing in Jepara, exactly in Bapangan RT.02 RW.01 for about 2,5 km eastwards of Jepara town square. Alamoya water boom is opened on 1 March 2008 with amount of employees 12 people. Water Boom Alamoya develop up by Ir. Dedy Sugianto and managed by Anshori and Anto.

Open         : Everyday at 07.30 AM - 06.00 PM (GMT+7) 
                  ( Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday till 08.00 PM)

Ticket        : Children        : Rp.   7.000,- 
                  Adult            : Rp.   9.000,- 
                  Member         : Rp. 50.000,- (ten times for 2 months)

Facilities     : - Rent Swimming Clothes       : Rp. 5.000,- 
                   - Rent Swimming Board         : Rp. 2.000,-
                   - Rent Tire                         : Rp. 3.000,-
                   - Cafetaria

                                                                     Post By : Cholie.T for JTIC

Tirta Samudra Beach

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Tirta Samudra Beach or more known by the public society with Bandengan beach placed + 7 km North side from city centre. The beach which has pure water and white sand is suitable for bathing place. There are many tourists come into this object to do intentional bathing frequently. Generally they are children, youngsters and foreign countries tourists. Usually, the most favourite moment is in the morning and in the evening toward twilight where there is mesmerizing susset panorama.In this location, we can sit and relax on the shelter while enjoy the natural beach breezy wind (unpolluted). The tourism object location has large field and the whole of part the dence pandan trees are grown. It is suitable for young sters activities such as camping, beach volley, relax bicycled for the same activities. Besides the above montained below, in this area can be used the play motorcross and kitten festival for the regional level, national level also international. The object can be reached easily by public transportation, because have provided the asphalt road infrastructure and the direct city transportation are a valuable to the location above. Meanwhile, roasted fish, small crab, boiled tortoise shell and pindang srani are a special foods that can be enjoyed by the visitors

HISTORY AND LEGEND

Based on history record, Bandengan Beach has tight correlation with the life of National Hero and Woman Emansipation figure, RA Kartini. The mentioned beacs was interesting place for the sins and daughters of Jepara Regency Regent, because there were may sweet memorizes there. The energetic girl who was usually calles TRINIL often made a tour to the Bandengan beach when she was child. She played with her family in the edge of beach which the white sand spread out. RA Kartini described her heart and soul as if she was one to the sea wave pounding when she wrote letters to Stella, her friend in Holland.Netherlands Indies Aristricrate, Mrs. Ovink Soer (Assistance Residence wife) with her husband invited Kartini and her little sisters Roekmini and Kardinah to enjoy the beach beauty in the first vacation toward promotion of the class. Kartini and her two little sisters followed Mrs. Ovink Soer find shell and they chased each other to avoid the wafe. Mrs. Ovink Soer asked to Kartini what the beach name was. Kartini answered shortly “Bandengan Beach”. Then Mrs. Ovink Soer said that there was beach which almost the same with Bandengan Beach in Holland, but there was little different because it had cool water the name is SCHEVENINGEN. Spontaniously, after listening, Kartini intermitted “…so, we called
It…..this Bandengan Beach with “KLEIN SCHEVENINGEN”.
Started the above mentioned, until now Bandengan Beach Has been known as KLEIN SCHEVENINGEN (in Dutch KLEIN means : beach and SCHEVENINGEN is the beach name in Holland).
Besides Bandengan beach was the place where had carved the history journey of RA Kartini idea. In this place RA Kartini and Mr. Abendanon also conducted four eyes conversation. The conversation connected her request to study in Holland, even finally her formal request to Netherlands Indies Government was reversed and the cost of her study was given to young man from Sumatera, Agus Salim (KH. Agus Salim).While it was narrated that Bandengan beach tourism object had correlated with the legend of Karimunjawa name. In that legend had been stated that because it was otivated the sense concern about his son naughtiness, therefore Sunan Muria instructed his son Amir Hasan to go to the North for an island that appeared “Kremun-kremun” from the peak of Muria Mountain. The journey aim was to deep once to develop the religion. Lather the Island had been named Karimunjawa. That arrived to the beach in the journey and there were many swamps and milkfishes there. Until now this place had been named Bandengan village and the beach which place in the village had been called Bandengan Beach

History and Legend of Mantingan Mosque and Grave

GENERAL REVIEW

Mantingan Mosque and grave are located in Mantingan village, Tahunan sub-district, 5 km Southward Jepara town centre. This village is well know as a village where Sultan Hadirin and his wife, queen Kalinyamat were buried. Sultan Hadirin was a Moslem leader who spread Islamic knowledge in the North coast. The Mantingan Mosque was the second Mosque after great Mosque of Demak.
Reaching this Mosque and grave is quite easy, because public transportation in available. The people of Mantingan are mostly Moslem and work in furniture industry.

 

HISTORY AND LEGEND

Stated above that the Mantingan Mosque was the second Mosque. The Mosque was built in 1481 S equel to 1559 C according to statement stated inside the Mosque “ RUPA BRAHMANA WANASARI” written by son R. Muhayat names R. Toyib. In the beginning R. Toyib studied Islamic knowledge in mecca and Cina after finishing the study, he then moved Jepara. R. Toyib married Ratu Kalinyamat (Retno Kencono), a daughter of Sultan Trenggono.
from Demak kingdom. He then was callet “Sultan Hadirin” and throned as ‘Adipati Jepara’ until he passed away and finally was buried beside the Mosque which he had built.
In the graveyard area, his wife and his Chinese relative named CIE GWI GWAN were also buried. The graveyard fully crowdedat “Khol” (the day where people commemorate the death of Sultan Hadiri’s death) also at ceremonial moment to change banner covered the Sultan’s tomb. This ceremonial moment is held once a year at 17 Robiul Awal (month of Moslem calendar), same with the date of Jepara anniversary.
The grave is believed by many people that has magical power. Husband and wife who haven’t got any child yet supposed to visit the grave yard and pick some fallen pace fruits. The ‘Pace’ fruit then has to be eaten by the husband and wife, if god may permit, the husband and wife will get baby.
Another magical power in this grave is the holy water, local people believe that the water used to get the truth of someone. Jeparanase people use this water when they are facing a problem by drinking the water, but it’s just a belief, you may believe or not.

Paradise of Karimunjawa

coastal forest

mangrove

kalimasada

1. Flora and Fauna

dewadaru

Properties of fauna and flora Archipelago of Karimunjawa make it so fascinate. There are five group of ekosistem flora which consist of rock bunch ecology, forest of mangrove ( field ponder), coastal forest, and lowland forest.

Other side, fauna exist in Karimunjawa bervariatif, like long tail monkey and deer and also aquatic fauna consisting of 242 decorative fish type and 133 aquatic genera and also 2 turtle type which live in Garden ekosistem Go out to sea National of Karimunjawa.

setigi

turtle

monkey brown hawk

2. Paradise Under Sea

Karimunjawa is bunch of 27 island which have been specified as national park. Karimunjawa reside in on course 50 400-50 570 south latitude and 1110 40 – 1100 400 east meridian, 45 sea mile of Kartini beach Jepara.

Songgo Langit Waterfall

GENERAL REVIEW

This plot located at Bucu village sub-district Kembang 30 km north from Jepara city. This waterfall has the height 80 m and width 2 m. According to yhe strong that spread among local villagers that enemy body will be stay young after taking a bath or washing their face there.
The nature scenery around the plot is so beautiful and the air is also relaxing, and make this place comfortable to visit as recreation area. You can meet various kind of butterflies with many beautiful color. To reach the plot you may use 2 wheel vehicle or 4 wheel vehicle with asphalt road.

HISTORY

A long time ago there was a young man came from Tunahan village made a love relationship with a young beautiful young lady from Dukuh Sumanding Bucu village sub-district Kembang. Their relationship continued until marriage. It was hold that between Tunahan village and Bucu village there was a river (now the river become waterfall).
In the old days a young man who wanted to propose a young lady had to bring kitchen set such as frying pan, plate, glass, etc. and also brought live short such as buffalo, cow, sheep, etc. At dawn the wife was having initiative to prepare break fast for the beloved husband, while she was preparing the breakfast, because a little bit careless, she made noises from the kitchen set.
Because of the noise, her mother warned her “Don’t get noisy, cause it will make your husband awake”. Her husband hearth that and miss inter-plated what his mother in law said as “Why you make some noise, when you work, do you think it is husband’s stuff?”
Right at the time the husband felt so annoyed with his mother in law’s words, so in the middle of the night the couple left from the house to move to her husband origin by riding a cart which was pull by cow. It was so dark that the went to the wrong road (got lost), and they felt that the car fell to the cliff (known as Songgolangit waterfall) and they were missing in action.his legend is so wide spread among local villagers, so that become a prohibition between people from Tunahan village and Bucu Village to be husband and wife, as they will meet to many obstacles in their relationship. Songgolangit waterfall, that is why people call it, because if you look the waterfall from the bottom, the waterfall looks supporting the sky.It was tall that the waterfall was guarded by a couple husband and wife that were participating in guarding the tourists comfortability who were enjoying the beauty of the plot, cause they felt that the tourists were their guests to be respected and guarded their security and comfortability.

Torch War

Torch War at Tegal Sambi Villages

          The traditional ceremony “Obor-oboran” is one of traditional ceremonies owned by the society of Jepara regency, especially Tegal Sambi vilagge Tahunan district, which is the only one in Central Java and maybe in Indonesia.
Torch (obor) in the ceremony is made by two or three roll of banana mid-rit and filled with dry leaves of banana (Javanese: klaras)
The prepared torches are burnt together in order to be used as attacker. The bumped torches make a big red hot, eventually people call it “ Perang Obor” (Torch War ).

THE HISTORY

          The traditional ceremony Perang Obor, which is per formed at Pahing Monday in the night of Pon Tuesday in the month of Dzulhijah every year, it is held by the tegal Sambi villagers basic faith of the past event happened in the village.It is said that in the 16th century there was a rich farmer named Mbah Kyai Babadan in Tegal Sambi village. He has a lot of cattle, especially buffalo and cow.

It was impossible for him to look after the castle by himself, so he looked for and got a shepherd named Ki Gemblong. Ki Gemblong was very diligent in looking after those animals. He bathed them in a river every morning and evening, consequently the cattle grew healthy and fat. Kyai Babadan felt so happy and flattered Ki Gemblong for his diligence and obedience in tacking after the cattle.
One day, Ki Gemblong was looking after cattle in a river side of Kembangan when he saw many fish and shrimps in the river. Without waiting any longer, he caught the fish and shrimps, cooked and ate them in stable.
After that Ki Gemblong caught the fish and shrimps almost everyday. He forgot about his duty as a shepherd. As the result, the buffaloes and cows become weak and sick even death. This condition made Kyai babadan confused. He tried to heal his cattle by magic formulas but it didn’t work.

Finally Kyai Babadan found out the reason why his cattle become weak and sick. It was because Ki Gemblong liked to catch some fish and shrimps to be cooked and eaten more than looked after those animals.
Kyai Babadan was so angry. Finding Ki Gemblong cooked the fish, Kyai Babadan hit Ki Gemblong with a torch made by coconut palm. Ki Gemblong also took the some torch to face Kyai Babadan.
The torch war finally began. The fire from the torch spread everywhere and burnt up stubble next to the stable. The fire made the buffaloes and cows run away and unexpectedly the sick animals healed even where able to stand upright and ate in the field.
Tegalsambi villagers finally accepted the unexpected and amazing event as a miracle, that by the torch war all disease would be healed.
Nowadays, the traditional ceremony “Perang Obor” in used as away of sedekah bumi, (as) an expression of thanks to god for his mercy to the Tegalsambi villager. The ceremony is held once a year.

Doc : Indra JTIC

Jepara Typical Foods

• Adon-adon Coro = coconut mink ginger beverage with coconut slice burn, which presented by warmnesst.
  

• Es Gempol = coconut mink beverage and of "gempol" ( ball of rice powder), presented by ordinary of beloved, briny, warmness or chilled .
  

• Es Pleret = coconut mink beverage and "pleret" ( eaten rice powder a few/little gummy) almost loo like with "gempol".

• Dawet Jepara (Es Cendhol / Cendol) = made of "sago" flour materials, original demerara, coconut mink.
  

• Rondo Royal = tape fry which wrapped by flour.
  

• Klenyem = scar "singkong" fry demerara content.
  

• Kenyol = scar "singkong" wrapped by banana leaf and is middle of him filled by demerara, way of cooking to be steamed.
  

• Nogosari = flour wrapped by banana leaf and is middle of him filled by ripe banana, way of cooking to be steamed .
  

• Moto Belong = scar "singkong" wrapped by banana leaf and is middle of filled by ripe banana, way of cooking to be steamed, and presented by cut to pieces rather oblique look like eyeball and eaten with grated to be coconut to be mingled by a few sugar.
  

• Poci = flour of wrapped by soft rice is banana leaf and formed by trapeze filled by coconut mixture grat and demerara
  

• Kuluban = mix with young jackfruit, string bean and young leaf of him, raw bean sprouts, and fruit of petai, presented is raw
  

• Pecel Ikan Laut Panggang = sea fish burn with flavour of "sambal" coconut mink
  

• Horok-horok = very scarce food and only found in jepara is made with "sago" raw material. by making which bizzare enough that is using hair comb. its for like spume of sterofom which is gummy felt a little is briny. usually eaten as mixture of meat ball,"gado-gado", and the others.
  

• Bontosan = dough of krupuk fish of "tenggiri" in the form of lump and have been steamed
  

• Sate Udang = scrimp satai.
  

• Terasi Jepara
  

• Durian Petruk
  

• Gereh Iwak Teri = Small fish taken as briny haddock, most of island of karimunjawa

• Latuh/Lato = A kind of grass sea, delicious eaten in a state of is fresh, and it is said can heal to chafe gullet, tonsil.