A rare phenomenon. Islamic tomb adjacent to a Hindu temple. Symbol of cultural and religious diversity in the archipelago.A raft was ready on the lake. Rower a young man, carrying a bamboo splinter long as the raft homing. Actually 'paddle' is not the right word. Bamboo is plugged into the bottom of the lake with tilting movement so that the raft moving slowly across to an island opposite.
The lake was named after the temple as their destination the passengers on the raft, and Temple Lake Cangkuang Cangkuang. Among the grove of trees and a light breeze, News Indonesia saw a building stone of the Hindu era. Uniquely, there is right next to the tomb of a local Islamic religious leaders, "Mbah Dalem Arif Muhammad." All around the tomb, tombs scattered its followers.Cangkuang is the name of a type of pine tree found in this area. Leaves can be used as hats, mats and palm sugar wrappers.That said, Arif Muhammad and his followers are to stem this area, forming a lake that was later called it (the lake in Sundanese) Cangkuang, roughly in the seventeenth century. After the dam is completed, forming islands of high land that is not submerged in water.Arif Mohammed and his friends came from the Mataram kingdom in East Java. They are the army of Sultan Agung, who intend to attack the VOC in Batavia, which was then headed by the Governor-General JP Coen. But their attack failed. Troops forced back to the East Priangan, in the region Cangkuang now, which now includes Leles Subdistrict, Garut regency, West Java. They decided not to go back to Mataram and settled in the area as he spread the religion of Islam to the locals who originally embraced animism, dynamism and Hinduism.Arif Muhammad and all his followers then choose settled in Long Island, one of the island in the middle of the lake, which is now called the Kampung Pulo. On the island there is a Hindu temple.Although long known of the people in Kampung Pulo, temple itself was discovered in 1966. Team History Leles find a framework that ancient buildings on the hill where Arif Muhammad is buried. The research was done until 1968. Actual restoration carried out in 1974. Original stones that some could be reconstructed walls of tombs and headstones back to original shape. Missing stone made replica.Adat Kampung PuloEntering the Kampung Pulo where Arif Mohammed had lived and spread the Islamic syari, feel the atmosphere of quiet and calm. Kampung it only consists of six traditional stilt houses and a mosque in the form of long standing in the middle, overlooking the village gate.Indonesia News visited the house of Mr. Jealous, who became the caretaker's tomb and the village elders, our sons and husband welcomed daughter. Pak Iri was already dead a few months ago.According to them, Kampung Pulo had customs and taboos that should not be violated. Among the number of six houses facing each other each of the three on each side should not be increased. Houses passed on to girls who are selected based on consensus.They also may not maintain a four-legged animals such as cows and goats for fear of damaging and soiling ancestral tombs scattered.The roof of a house should also elongated (jolopong). Also prohibited gong musical instrument. It is said that first, the boys only Arif Muhammad, who was circumcised was carried by stretcher-shaped square-roofed house (jure), accompanied by the gong sounds. Suddenly there was a hurricane. The boy fell in the wind and eventually died.Residents of Kampung Pulo until now believe that if all the taboos were violated, there will be a big disaster befall them.
