Friday, March 25, 2011

Heritage house, Pondok Jati Rasa

Houses Owned Nona Farsijana Risakotta at Cliff Edge.

Adapted by Denis IBS from Maria Hartiningsih dan Wawan H Prabowo

As far as the eye could see that looked just blue sea, blue as the color of the sky when the sun moves toward the peak. From the porch of the house, on the cliffs above the South Sea in Parangtritis, Yogyakarta, stretching plains unnamed feeling that greet pass.

The view was nailing his eyes, raises the difficult feelings are described with words. All the elements that look, sound and feel of the porch is like forming a perfect orchestration: the rustle of wind, waves, sighed rubbing leaves, the rustle of dry twigs, grass and flower shrubs dances, the smell of soil and rock, the sound of monkeys, insects, and fauna left in Alas (forest) Wigude. Toot flute which contradict comes from the occasional shriek of a passing bird.

All of it as home-based Java architecture, measuring 9 x 13 meter square which symbolizes the meeting of the components of Java, Hinduism, and Islam. Sculpture in the girder showed the house was built in 1822, left as is. Even part time eaten rotten wood.
Two-meter wide glass wall facing the side gallery framed gebyok (as frame) carved like connecting the inside of the house with nature that lie ahead. Meeting the horizon line with a limit of sea surface apparent mirage if the weather sunny. Sometimes, the line was covered with mist, making him look like the gates of a place that holds the secrets of the universe.
It's not easy to reach the house. Steep cobbled streets, winding, narrow, climbing, and in some parts side by side directly to the edge is along the four kilometer route that must be passed, after traveling 28 kilometers south of Yogyakarta city.

Missy (46) together with Bernard Adeney-Risakotta (61) which was familiarly called Adi Satria is a pair of scientists homeowners in an area of ​​eight hectares of forest area was. However, the term "owner" in the formal law was corrected Mem. "Perhaps better known as the responsible care," said Doctor Anthropology graduate Radbout Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands, it is.

The inside of the house was supported by eight pillars. Front porch and side propped 13 coconut trees. A touch of modernity seen in the bathroom area and bedroom, marked with the toilet seat and floor tiles. The inside of the glass-walled space that is now inhabited by lounge chairs in front of the fireplace, was once the great-grandparent work space, which not just anyone can enter.

Steep rocky

"Welcome to Pondok Jati Rasa,"says Adeney-Risakotta Farsijana, familiarly called Missy, as she stretched out her hands.
"If you want to come in, have to ask permission and must pass gebyok, so that the course should be subject, like a salute," said Miss a bloody Java-Ambon.

Long Process

Pondok Jati Rasa is part of the process of Nona and Adi find your true self on the way to the Creator. Included in that process is an encounter with a fellow creature, which is visible, touchable, or not, whatever its name, to build a sense of and respect for life.
The whole atmosphere seemed mystical Wigude Alas (jungle), let alone there are some caves, far below. Proximity to the two natural stone cliffs of Cape Selopenangkep dampit, for example, only 200 meters, 300 meters before it fell to Goa Langse, which juts about 50 feet into, such as entry into the belly of the Earth.

Pondok Jati Rasa stand at the end. First they create the pavilion and a stone house to guard the house, having bought in installments arid and barren land has to offer residents the early 2000s. Forest on the hill was now green after Nona and Adi assisted residents to plant 1500 native trees varied.

"Yesterday Mr. Head Hamlet conducted a census of plants, there are 5197 trees, including 91 species of rare trees," said Nona. Said Mr. and Mrs. Tumijo Sariyem, a couple who keep  house, Adi asked not dispose of the fallen tree limbs, and let all go back into humus. No one even animal should be killed.

"We never leave this house for six months due to the U.S.. When he returned, we made a simple ritual to thank all the beings who had to keep house, and asked them who are still in the back to the jungle, "said Nona.

When about to build homes for the resort was, not surprisingly, a relative of Prambanan asked Ms. purchase ancestral home. "He said, the strong heritage of caring for these offspring are female ancestor,"recalled Miss, "I was shocked. How it all as coincidence. And this time we do not have money. "

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  2. Thanks Dennis. I rewrite what I wrote before. Somehow it erased. My home name is Nona which translated in English as Miss. But I am married to Bernard Adeney-Risakotta. Therefore it would be better for you to just write my name Nona under the picture of the house, instead of writing as Miss Farsijana Risakotta. Writing as what has written in Kompas is the best. Translating my name, Nona to Missy should be reconsidered. Keep Nona is better than Missy. Thanks for doing the translation for extending readers who are not Indonesians. Salam. Farsijana

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