Indigenous dance Loliyana is a dance custom creation or development derived from the society Islands Teon Nila Serua, Central Maluku District, Maluku Province.
Custom dance Loliyana that only use white handkerchiefs as the properties it tells about the Ceremony Harvest Lola—one of the ceremonies customary harvest of the sea—which changed its shape into the art of performing dance.
Custom dance Loliyana this in addition to lifting the Ceremony Harvest Lola as the core of the story, it also refers to the tradition and culture of the society Islands Teon Nila Serua Maluku, where traditional dance is born and developed.
The origin and History of Dance Loliyana rooted from the Sea Beast named Lola
In the language of the people of Maluku, Loliyana is the word used to refer to a work of collecting one of the sea, that is Lola. Lola (Trochus Niloticus) is a sea animal which is in the form of sea snails or shellfish that comes from a species of Molluska.
The sea beast has several names. Some call it the snail lola, there is also a call as snails milk round. But, the most common term used by the people of Maluku is Lola.
Lola’s a lot of living in between the ecosystems of coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangrove forests. Its shell-shaped cone with a length of between 50 to 165 mm and a diameter of between 100 to 120 mm. The shell of Lola’s creamy whiteness and pattern striped crimson. Basic shell speckled pink.
Unfortunately, the beast of the sea is scarce since a decade ago. Lola being hard to find in the waters of Maluku and Papua, because it had harvested on a massive scale up to 50 tons per year (in the 1950s).
Then, the Snail Lola continues to experience a decline in the harvest, until the year 1992 only reached 1.5 tons per year. This is because, the community at that time did not take into account the cycle of propagation Snail Lola. Therefore, Snail Lola only be able to breed after two years old.
Shell lola is also used in industrial studs and crafts as well as exported to Japan, Korea, and Europe, so sustainability is increasingly threatened.
But, you need not worry about sustainability because the people of the East have a traditional ceremony certain that accidentally they do to regenerate marine animals, especially Snails Lola.
Ceremonial Harvest Lola
The ceremony is called with the Ceremony Harvest Lola or Sasi Lola. This traditional ceremony is essentially to perform retrieval Lola periodically so that the capacity of his arrest awake and not excessive.
In the area of the East as the Moluccas and surrounding areas, local communities have the structure of traditional use as a taboo or prohibition in collecting or take the better the results of the sea or the forest until the time limit has been agreed by the community.
This is what the indigenous people to the diversity of marine life in the waters, they are not extinct because it was taken so many without consideration. They learn from the history in the 1950s until 1992.
All right, we’re back on the Dance Customary Loliyana. As I said earlier, that Dance Loliyana is a form of depiction of the Ceremonial Harvest Lola. Harvest Lola is done after the Sasi Lola officially opened by the Chairman of the Religious and Traditional authorities local.
The process of harvesting Lola begins with the party of the people around the campfire from the night until the morning before dawn. Then proceed with thanksgiving and prayer to God for the success of the harvest will be done before the rising of the sun.
The harvest is done in mutual cooperation, both men and women all participate in the celebration of this harvest. From the tradition of the harvest lola’s, then was born the creations of Indigenous Dance Loliyana.
That was a bit of a review about the Origin and History of the Indigenous Dance Loliyana derived from Maluku. Information about the indigenous dance is still very slight and difficult to access elements.
In addition to Traditional Dance Loliyana, Maluku also has a variety of dances of the indigenous cultural heritage of the society such as Cakalele Dance, Dance Orlapei, Dance Katreji, Dance Kabaresi, Dance Lenso and still many again the other.
Every region in Indonesia certainly has a variety of amazing culture. Unfortunately, we all still can maximize the potential. In fact, often, we do not know the culture of the region itself.
So, this is what causes the lack of information let alone believes that the culture of the area. Therefore, we must be the generation that cares about the cultural heritage of the region. A small step we can take is with a lot of seeking out information about the culture of the area.
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