RASULAN

Rasulan is one of the main types of culture that has long existed in some parts of Indonesia, especially in the area Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta. Rasulan itself is a form of rural people to the joy of god because the harvest season has arrived. In other areas it is usually called the apostolic Merti village / village clean.

In the apostolic there are several series of activities will be conducted among community service started with a clean village (also called apostolic because it clean the village). By noon the day of the event continued with a variety of activities that make the show more lively performances include reog, Jathilan or ketoprak.

 After a day in the afternoon is usually also held a sort of carnival procession through the village in which participants use a variety of carnival costumes troop Mataram war. Also brings a kind of carnival participants replica form in which it is attached by a wide variety of agricultural products for later distribution to the public when the procession is completed.

Do not miss the mothers also cook a variety of food provided to entertain guests and their relatives who visit.

In closing this series of events is apostolic puppet shows are held all night long the villagehall.

As a form of culture that has long been in Indonesia there are some positive value that can be appointed by the apostolic tradition is the first of which is an awareness in the community that everything in this world is the gift of the almighty we must be grateful for,is concerned with the meaning of the apostolic itself give grace. The second is the spirit of maintaining the existing culture, as shown by convening a wide range of traditional arts which are more advanced in age, many people are forgetting about the arts and the third kebudayaan.yang is a means to re-cultivate ties between families andcommunities.