Megibung - Balinese Traditions

Culture and tradition of this Megibung has actually existed for a long time in the era of the kingdom of Karangasem, and until now still awake sustainably. There are several terms in the megibung tradition, such as "sele" meaning part of the group of people who join and sit together to enjoy the megibung tradition, they usually sit in circles with the number of participants about 6 people, then the term "gibungan" is a bundle of rice with mats (from leaves of coconut) and placed on a tray or tray, there is the term "essay" is a side dish like lawar, kekomoh, nyab (nyuh nyuh) white and barracks, padamare, sequence, marus, bats and satay, this type of side dishes vary according to ability.



In every sele composed of all men or women they do not mix, they sit around a lion and an article to eat together. Prepared water for hand washing, water pitchers are now widely used bottled drinking water. Then in a sele there is one person who is tasked to put or raise a side dish in a gibungan, and even then there is a sequence like kekomoh and urab first, then lawar, meat and last is a blow. Consider a place or arena in a meal together with this megibung, can arrive at several periods depending on invitations that come, in a period may consist of several and ten cents.

This meal together is unique, there is no difference, sitting in togetherness, usually coming in a celebration of traditional invitations are local residents, so in one sele they already know each other, they eat together occasionally while joking and exchanging thoughts, the impression is so relax, add friendships and get to know more, and if the rice is eaten together it is natural to add back, if the side dish (essay) should not be. So eating together in megibung way ensures the participants will be very satisfied, there is no doubt or embarrassment to add more.
At the time of eating, as much as possible in order not to splatter, let alone scattered on the tray is not allowed, so the impression does not eat the rest of the food sprinkling others. Even if eating spilled it must be outside the tray. Although there are no written rules in the traditions or megibung events, the megibung participants also should not spit, sputter, sneeze, yell, laugh loudly and etiquette and other manners, including when one megibung participants are full, can not leave the place, start together and end together.