INFOKU, JAKARTA –There was something that caught the public's attention at the Jakarta City Car Free Day (CFD) arena, from Sudirman to the HI Roundabout, Sunday (12/1/2025) morning.
Namely the Blora Cultural Festival event entitled "Blora Engkek" presented by the Alumni Association of SMAN 1 Blora (ILUSA) in collaboration with the Blora Regency Government,
Seeing the great enthusiasm of Jakarta residents, "Blora Engkek" presents regional arts typical of Blora, especially Barong Art, complete with several culinary specialties of Blora.
This is what makes Blora Regent Arief Rohman hope that this event will become an annual event.
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From monitoring, thousands of residents of the capital who were doing morning exercise at the CFD arena, many also watched the typical Blora art performance presented by the Risang Guntur Seto (RGS) Barongan Art Association.
The RGS personnel even took part in a walking procession from the Dukuh Atas Sudirman Bus Stop to the HI Roundabout and back to Dukuh Atas Park.
Hundreds of photographers' camera eyes also captured the momentum of Blora Engkek which started from 06.00 to 09.30 WIB.
Not only displaying Barongan, culinary stands typical of Blora such as chicken satay, Lontong Tahu, and asem-asem which were held in the CFD arena, were also sold out by the local residents.
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Both the Blora Diaspora in Jakarta and native Jakarta residents who are curious and want to get to know Blora.
Like Amelia, this student from Kebayoran Lama, Jakarta, was interested and happy to see the barongan.
While participating in CFD with his friends, he admitted that he was surprised that there was an arts performance that morning which turned out to be the Blora Engkek event.
"This is the first time I've participated in CFD and there's a regional art performance like this. It's good, as an event to introduce regional arts. I thought it was from Ponorogo because at first glance it looked like reyog. It turns out that barongan is from Blora and after I followed the performance, it was different from reyog. It increased my knowledge about regional arts. Hopefully events like this can continue to be held and can be emulated by other regions," he hoped. (Setyorini)
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