PETAK JONGKOK

By:Siti Musrifah

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       Petak Jongkok is a traditional game that played by all of ages.Sometimes this game played in a room,field,or on a lonely road.Even this game can played everywhere without any preparation.To play this game we must decided the lose person especially choosed by ''gambreng'' to be  a guard or runner,and the other people must run away.
       All of the players must runaway avoid the guard.Then the guard must chasea player untill can pat the players every where.If the guard succes to pat a player,the position change automatically.The people that has pat by a first guard,he/she is the next guard.Other players can release theirselh by squat,that's why this game called petak jongkok.The players that have squad is considered nonactive and can't activate themselves.And the one way is the players that have squad tapped by another player that haven't squad and dont be a guard.