Pangerupukan - Balinese Traditions


Pengerupukan own meaningful ceremony performed to expel Bhuta Kala or all things that are bad done by dusk (sandhyakala) after the Mecaru ceremony around the residence where the day before the ceremony Nyepi.

Pengerupukan done by spreading the rice tawur, mengobori-obori home and the entire yard, sprinkle the house and yard with gunpowder, and hitting any objects that can produce loud sounds so noisy / noisy.



This stage is done to repel blind Kala from home environment, yard, and environment.

Especially in Bali, pengrupukan usually enlivened with ogoh-ogoh parade which is the embodiment of blind Kala who paraded around the environment, and then burned. The goal is the same that drive away Blind Kala from the surrounding environment.


In Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia, this ngrupuk ceremony was performed at Sandhyakala after a mecaru ceremony at the house level the day before Nyepi Day, then around the house carrying a torch, sprinkling the rice tawur.

As for the village level and banjar, people surrounded the village or banjar area three times with torches and sound instruments.

Since the 1980s, the ummah brought ogoh-ogoh the giant statue. Ogoh-ogoh who was financed with the money of the citizenship fee then burned.

Burning ogoh-ogoh is a symbol nyomia or neutralize Bhuta Kala, the elements of evil forces.

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