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The Karangkamulyan site has an area of approximately 25 ha and stores various types of
objects. Every object stored on this site is related to the history of the Galuh Kingdom. Most of the
stored objects are in the form of stones.
Although the locations of these stones are close together, they are scattered with different
shapes. All the stones in karangkamulyan site are inside a building. The building has a structure
made of piles of stones with a shape that is not much different. In addition, with a door installed
on the structure of this building, at first glance this building resembles a room.
Each stone stored in the Karangkamulyan Site has distinctive names and inside the stones
are stored interesting stories. The names found on each stone come from the surrounding
community who like to be associated with stories or myths about the Galuh Kingdom.
Kinship System
The traditional Sundanese marriage contract in front of the penghulu and witnesses.
The family system in the Sundanese tribe is bilateral, the lineage is drawn from the father
and mother's side. In the Sundanese family, it is the father who acts as the head of the
family. Strong familial ties and the role of Islam which greatly influenced the customs of the
Sundanese life. In the Sundanese tribe, pancakaki is known as a term to indicate kinship. For
example, first, brothers who are directly related, downwards, and vertically. Namely child, incu
(grandson), piut (great-grandmother), bao, canggahwareng or janggawareng, udeg-udeg, kaitsiwur
or hangsiwur. Second, indirectly and horizontally related relatives such as the son of an uncle,
aunt, or uwak, the son of a grandfather or grandmother's brother, the son of a piut brother. Third,
indirect and direct and vertically related relatives such as the niece of the brother's child, the
nephew of the younger brother's child, and so on. In Sundanese, it is also known as the vocabulary
of sajarah and sarsilah (salsilah or genealogy) whose meaning is more or less the same as the
historical and genealogical vocabulary in Indonesian.
Specialties
Some types of traditional Indonesian snack foods originating from the land of Sundanese,
such as asem vegetables, lodeh vegetables, pepes, tutug oncom, lalaban, etc.
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