Kenduri dalam Dictionary Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) means a meal to commemorate events, ask for blessings, and so on. [1] Kenduri or better known as Selamatan or Kenduren (the name of kenduri for the Javanese community) has existed long before the entry of religion into the archipelago. [1]
In practice, kenduri is a gathering event, commonly done by men, with the aim of asking for the smoothness of everything that is entrusted from the organizers inviting nearby people to come led by the elder or the person skilled in the field . [2] [3] Such as: chaplain. [2] [3]
In general, the deliberation is done after the ba'da isya, and served a rice cone and tomato (place made of woven bamboo covered with rectangular shape taken by someone from selametan or kenduri) for invited guests. [2] [3]
As for women, kenduri provides a privacy space for women to share information about their own families and other neighbors. [1] This is where women can exchange stories freely without interruption from [male | men]] as long as they prepare food, because women will work to prepare the feast in a relatively long time, which is about 4-7 days during the celebration. ]
Nowadays, the festivity is still largely done by all spheres of society both urban and rural communities. [4] [3] Because kenduri is a social mechanism to care for wholeness, in a way to restore rifts, and reaffirming shared ideals, as well as exercising social control over deviations from shared ideals. Kenduri as a social institution accommodates and represents many interests. [3] [4]