Narrative Text : The Origin Name of Semampir Village

The Origin Name of Semampir Village

            In the 19^th Century when Indonesian was colonized by Dutch. Indonesian people was suppress, stupidity and poverty are clear felt. All of the harvest are carried away by the colonizer, Indonesian people were forced to work for colonizer without any payment. Then, there was a man called Pangeran Diponegoro who wanted to help Indonesian people free from Colonizer. Pangeran Diponegoro and his troops started to arrange the tactics to chase away the colonizer from Indonesia.

            The time to attack Colonizer  was started, the headquarter of the troop was in Goa Selarong which located far from town, so the colonizer couldn’t find them. First attack was successful, and they started to  continue the next attack, although the troops only used traditional weapon, such as badik, keris, and also ‘bambu runcing’. In the contrary, colonizer used modern weapon, such as ordnance and gun.

            The war was happened since 1825 until 1830, for about five years Pangeran Diponegoro and his troop hid in the forest and mountain range, in order to avoid colonizer and also to arrange new tactics. Pangeran Diponegoro and his troops got a great victory. It made the colonizer felt chaotic, and they decided to do something crafty, they wanted to catch Pangeran Diponegoro. Unlucky, they were successful with their plan, they could catch Pangeran Diponegoro by pretending to make peace with him. Pangeran Diponegoro was caught by colonizer and he was isolated in Makassar. After Pangeran Diponegoro was isolated, then the troops saved themselves by spread out to Yogyakarta and Central Java.

            One of the troops of Pangeran Diponegoro who spreaded out was Ki Buyut Proyononggo. He roamed around Central Java to save his life. He was well-known as a man who had a great spiritual skill. Ki Buyut disguised and mixed with the society, in order to avoid colonizer. In his roaming, he had never slept in the room, he preferred slept above a big tree, so he couldn’t detect by the colonizer. Ki Buyut passed forest, river, and also mountain to find a suitable place which colonizer couldn’t find him. The way that he passed was dangerous because there were some harmful ravines and also wild animal, but Ki Buyut never gave up. Along his trip, Ki Buyut was followed by colonizer’s spies, so he decided to sleep in the steam. He slept like a bat. Because of that tactic, he could deceive the colonizer’s spies and also could avoid wild animals’ attack.

            One day, Ki Buyut arrived in a place where was quiet and there were only some house there. Ki Buyut took arrest for some days at that place and he mixed with the other people there, but he was still slept in a steam or Javanese called it “Semampir”. Ki Buyut realized that there was no colonizer’s spy who followed him. Then he decided to stayed there, as a new in habitant, Ki Buyut helped people who needed some help. He taught people to read Al-Qur’an, and he also cared sick people.

            Ki Buyut was happy to interact with other people, and he was closer with in habitant of that place, moreover, he was reputed as family. The people of that place were very helped by Ki Buyut, so they considered him as the leader. Ki Buyut married a girl in that place t omitted loneliness because he didn’t have any family in that place. He then had some children. When he was old, he decided to have meditation in the steam for 40 days.

            The way Ki Buyut had meditation was like a bat or Javanese  called it “Semampir”. So, the place called as “Semampir Village” and now his grave was sacred by the people around.

            That is the story behind the name of Semampir Village in Batang.

Adapted from : https://kangdikin.blogspot.co.id/2011/06/kumpulan-cerita-rakyat.html?m=1