Archery Competition Mataraman Style

Traditional archery competitions "Mataraman" Style which be held on Tuesday Wage Kraton Yogyakarta Sultanate with the Provincial Government of DIY (Yogyakarta) this time followed by a foreign participants from the Netherlands. This is interesting because the participants archery competitions usually only comes from the local DIY and its surroundings.

Pengageng Jemparingan Wiyosan Ndalem Wage Tuesday, KPH Winoto Kusuma said participants this year increased to follow a Dutch citizen living in Yogyakarta as well as many participants from themselves or from outside DIY DIY like Sukoharjo, Klaten and surrounding areas.

Winoto explain this race is one of the cultural heritage of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX which is still carried out sustainably. In fact, if traced, this activity has existed since 1934. At that time, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX give orders to your family and their palace courtiers of performing the traditional archery "Mataraman" style.

The competition lasted for 10 rounds, where every one round there are 4 arrows are launched. For the target used in a doll effigy, the head of its value if the target of 3 with a yellow flag, about the neck of the score2 with a red flag, the taxable entity score 1 with a white flag with a target distance of 30 meters. The race is gaining trophies from the Provincial Government of DIY (Yogyakarta) and some money and also the winner got "Ekoloyo Medal" of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X.

Sources: http://www.krjogja.com/