Tapok Kaleng ( Petak Umpet Dengan Menggunakan Kaleng)

By Mely Azini Prastika

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Tapok kaleng is one kind of tradisional game that popular and very fun to play in Indonesia. Consist of a group within a game, one of them will be a guard, and others will be attackers. Start with choosing who will be a guard in a group, it can be by Hompimpah Alaihum Gambreng or other way. And then after we have a guard, we have to get ready to play. First. I would like to tell you, the tool that we must have for this game, there are cans, and stik that made by wood, or bamboo with size around 30 cm. The way how to play this game are: a guard has to setting the cans, it can be like a tower with two or more level, or can be a straight line. And then alternately the attackers will throw the stick bamboo towards the cans utill one of them subvert the cans successfully. After the cans untidy the guard has to reconstitute that cans into the first form, and while a guard busy with setting the cans, the attackers hiding in the save place for each of them. And after that, a guard has to looking for the attackers' hide place. In tapok kaleng, someone that become a guard has to thorough. Otherwise one of the attacker will kick the cans and that will be trouble for the guard, because he or she has to reconstitute the cans and time for him to be a guard will be longer than usuall.

finally keep our culture through keep playing our tradisional game. that means we love our country.....!