{"id":"SUSILO2023-001","label":"Kebonsari kumbangan, the beetle buzzer","people_or_site":"Javanese villagers of Kebonsari (Kampoeng Pring)","country_current":"Indonesia","historic_region":"Kebonsari, Borobudur district, Magelang Regency, Central Java","macroregion":"Southeast Asia / Indonesia","local_name":"kumbangan (kumbongan)","source_term":"kumbangan","source_language":"Indonesian","object_description":"A strip of split bamboo about 3 cm wide and two handspans long, shaved flat to 0.5 cm and pierced at one end, tied by a cord to a round bamboo handle about 40 cm long, like a long chopstick.","function_summary":"A children's bamboo plaything, made and taught again in the village's games workshops; whirled so the blade buzzes like a beetle.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"susilo2023_kampoeng_pring_kebonsari","source_type":"heritage_and_ethnography","source_url":"https://eksotikadesa.id/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Buku-PPK-Desa-Kebonsari-Kebonsari-Kampoeng-Pring.pdf#page=114","page_or_plate":"Susilo et al. 2023 pp. 105, 159; Lestari et al. 2025 pp. 59-60, 66 (Table 2 no. 10)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Kebonsari village (desa), Borobudur district, Magelang (Wikipedia Indonesia village coordinate, checked 2026-11-12); the book's colophon and text place the programme in Desa Kebonsari, Kecamatan Borobudur, with its craft centre in Dusun Gunung Mijil.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Kebonsari calls itself Kampoeng Pring, the bamboo village: a few kilometres west of the great temple of Borobudur, its people weave bamboo trays, plant and tend bamboo groves, and build their children's games from it. One of them is the kumbangan, named for the beetle it imitates. A strip of bamboo two handspans long is shaved thin and pierced at one end, then tied by a cord to a round bamboo handle as long as a forearm; swung round, the flat blade spins in the air and buzzes like a beetle. Village elders remembered it, local makers rebuilt it, and it went back into children's hands at the bamboo-games workshop of the village culture market. Central Javanese children already had a koembangan a century ago.","pull_quote":"ayunkan sehingga bilah bambu pipih berputar di udara dan menghasilkan suara seperti kumbang","pull_quote_translation":"swing it so that the flat bamboo blade spins in the air and makes a sound like a beetle","pull_quote_cite":"Susilo et al., Kampoeng Pring Kebonsari (2023), p. 105","term_gloss":"kumbangan: from Javanese/Indonesian kumbang, 'beetle, large bee', for its buzz; spelled koembangan in Dutch-era sources.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Anang Ari Susilo et al., Kampoeng Pring Kebonsari: Tansah Migunani Sembada Hanguripi (Kemendikbudristek and Eksotika Desa Lestari, 2023), pp. 105, 159","url":"https://eksotikadesa.id/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Buku-PPK-Desa-Kebonsari-Kebonsari-Kampoeng-Pring.pdf"},{"citation":"Afifa Lestari, Yuli Setiawati and Fuat Hasyim, “Eksplorasi Permainan Rakyat dan Olahraga Tradisional Bambu dalam Pemajuan Kebudayaan Desa Kebonsari, Magelang,” Jurnal Pemberdayaan Pariwisata 7(1) (2025), pp. 58–70","url":"https://jurnalpariwisata.iptrisakti.ac.id/index.php/JPP/article/view/1909","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260417070559/https://jurnalpariwisata.iptrisakti.ac.id/index.php/JPP/article/view/1909"}],"source_citations":"Anang Ari Susilo et al., Kampoeng Pring Kebonsari: Tansah Migunani Sembada Hanguripi (Kemendikbudristek and Eksotika Desa Lestari, 2023), pp. 105, 159; Afifa Lestari, Yuli Setiawati and Fuat Hasyim, “Eksplorasi Permainan Rakyat dan Olahraga Tradisional Bambu dalam Pemajuan Kebudayaan Desa Kebonsari, Magelang,” Jurnal Pemberdayaan Pariwisata 7(1) (2025), pp. 58–70","source_display":"Anang Ari Susilo et al., Kampoeng Pring Kebonsari: Tansah Migunani Sembada Hanguripi (Kemendikbudristek and Eksotika Desa Lestari, 2023), pp. 105, 159; Afifa Lestari, Yuli Setiawati and Fuat Hasyim, “Eksplorasi Permainan Rakyat dan Olahraga Tradisional Bambu dalam Pemajuan Kebudayaan Desa Kebonsari, Magelang,” Jurnal Pemberdayaan Pariwisata 7(1) (2025)…","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A strip of split bamboo about 3 cm wide and two handspans long, shaved flat to 0.5 cm and pierced at one end, tied by a cord to a round bamboo handle about 40 cm long, like a long chopstick.","function_display":"A children's bamboo plaything, made and taught again in the village's games workshops; whirled so the blade buzzes like a beetle.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"javanese villagers","display_name":"Kebonsari kumbangan, the beetle buzzer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/FISCHER1914-001_wereldmuseum_rv1680-1.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/expansion_2026_07/thumbs/FISCHER1914-001_wereldmuseum_rv1680-1_thumb.jpg","alt":"Karo dengeng-dengeng: a lance-shaped bamboo blade and a long curved bamboo stock linked by fine cord.","credit":"Wereldmuseum / NMVW (RV-1680-1)","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","source_page":"https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/716408","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Karo Batak bamboo bullroarer and its handle from Sumatra.","pool_id":"auto-expansion_2026_07--FISCHER1914-001_wereldmuseum_rv1680-1"},"slug":"susilo2023-001-javanese-villagers-of-kebonsari-kampoeng-pring"}