Universitas Indonesia Conferences, 7th International Symposium of Journal Antropologi Indonesia

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Tradition of Drinking Arak
Taqyuddin Taqyuddin Taqyuddin

Building: Soegondo Building
Room: 523
Date: 2019-07-25 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Last modified: 2019-06-18

Abstract


Good old time social alcohol drink fest can be find in ancient Indonesia Archipelago, both forhighlander or in coastal. There Two types of this tropical alcoholic beverages, one can be consider as liquor, with alcohol content less than 10%, still having the taste of its mother raw source, and has high sugar content ehancing its sweet and sour taste, and the other is simply spirits, with 40% proff alcohol content, better the taste of these tropical spirit enhanced with spices or aromatic flower like Kambing Putih Spirits from Batak. There are also some spirits made from distilation of  Sugar Wine made Saccharum arundinaceum called Ciu, these speciment taste rough more robust than is coussins, Rum. The habitate of alcoholic precussor sap are widely distributed from high land to coastal, its quite weird to understand that many place in Tropical High Land, the low temparature of such place does influence people to create and consume some alcoholic beverage. From etnographical point of view, the name of these beverage are interesting such as Saguer, Legen, Tuak, Brem, Sopi, Swansrai, Cap Tikus,  Lapen dan Ballo. The consumption conntext of these beverage, some or consume as a part of mystical rituals, other can be the sign of social class, and many are become related with leisure time from hard work, and the problems of the abuse of alcholic intoxication, but for many, alcholic drink is not part of daily consumption, more related to special location. And these paper, are trying to find the spatial relation of the source in tropical archipelago, the procesess,  and its consumption context based from historical materials like literature, manuscript, etc, to explaned and to give the picture of good old time ancient alcohol drink fest and rituals in “Nusantara”.