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Sea Party

Alms of the sea is the momentum of the people's party for the citizens of Cilacap. Even tourists and local residents flock to witness this traditional ceremony which is held once a year. However, due to the current pandemic, this year's sea alms are only carried out by fishermen's representatives. The Head of Tourism Promotion and Creative Economy of the Cilacap Regency Youth, Sports and Tourism Erni Suharti said the sea alms activity this time will take place simply on 27 August 2021. .

Even the sea alms will only be carried out by some representatives of fishermen. This is because there is still the Covid-19 pandemic, which does not allow holding community activities that have the potential to cause crowds. In other words, the implementation will be more or less the same as in 2020.

"This year there will still be sea alms, it's just that it is carried out in a simple way. Technically, it will be held in each fishing association," he told serayunews.com, Wednesday (28/7/2021).

Erni explained that this time, the cultural procession and jolen procession, as well as dance performances and traditional ceremonies which were usually held in the district's pendapa, were not held. This is the event that people have been waiting for the most. In fact, people usually watch lined up neatly on the track of the jolen convoy, which stretches from Cilacap Square to Turtle Bay Beach.

"Including wayang performances in each group of fishermen are also not held. In essence, the sea alms this time only carried out a kind of customary core, "he said.

Erni also emphasized that his party asked the public to be patient because they could not witness the biggest cultural celebration in Cilacap. Because there are things that are more important right now, namely maintaining public health.

"Be patient, there must be quite a lot of people who miss the sea alms. Hopefully next year it can be held normally,"

History Sea party

The event of the sea alms tradition of fishing communities on the coast of Cilacap on Friday (12/10) has attracted the attention of various groups, because of the distribution of photos of pamphlets in Cilacap which are a number of messages containing warnings of disasters as punishment.

Among the flyers distributed were: "Don't give up offerings because it could cause a tsunami", "Alms because besides Allah invites punishment for looh", "Create a tourism program that God is not angry with", and "Rika Sing Gawe Sin Aku Melu Cilaka".

Reading the tourism profile published by the Tourism and Culture Office (Disparbud) of Cilacap, the history of the sea alms tradition cannot be separated from the Pandanarang fishing group in Cilacap. This tradition stems from the order of the 3rd Regent of Cilacap, Tumenggung Tjakrawerdaya III who asked the elder fisherman of Pandanarang, Ki Arsa Menawi to throw offerings into the southern sea.

On Kliwon Friday in Shura 1875, sea alms were carried out by involving other fishing groups such as Sidakaya, Donan, Sentolokawat, Tegalkatilayu, Lengkong and Kemiren. Only in 1983, alms sea was appointed as a tourist attraction.

The chairman of the Cilacap Supreme Council for Belief in God Almighty (MLKI), Basuki Rahardja, explained that sea alms have become a tradition of fishing groups in Cilacap that can be carried out from generation to generation. Alms sea, he emphasized, is not related to any particular creed or belief. Its essence manifests gratitude to God for the abundance of rizki in coastal communities.

"The form of gratitude is through banning jolen which means Ojo Kelalen, or don't forget it in Indonesian," said Basuki, Saturday (10/13).

As closely as an expression of gratitude for the fishing community, the tradition of sea alms by the Cilacap Regency Government is then packaged into a district agenda which is held once a year. Not only fishermen groups, the district government also made Jolen who was also thrown into the sea. In the sea alms procession on Friday (12/10), as many as 10 groups of fishermen and the Cilacap Regency Government were brought from the district pavilion before being thrown into the sea.

In addition, sea alms are not only carried out simultaneously, involving several groups of fishermen based on Teluk Turtle Beach, Cilacap. In some areas in Cilacap, sea alms are also carried out by fishing communities in their respective village areas.

For example, a group of fishermen in Adiraja Village, Adipala District, Cilacap Regency held a sea alms tradition at the tourist beach of Sodong, Friday (6/10). The implementation of this tradition, which also prohibits jolen or offerings, also involves the Banakeling indigenous people in the local village.

Regarding the circulation of pamphlets related to sea alms that can lead to punishment, Cilacap Religious Harmony Forum (FKUB) member Taufiq Hidayatulloh regretted the installation of pamphlets along the carnival route. He also had time to ask about the legality of installing the banner to the Kebangpol Cilacap.

"Apparently, Kesbangpol claimed to have never issued a permit for the installation of the banner containing the warning content,"