Traditional Horse Racing

Who does not know the Race or Horse race, Gayo tribe people called "Pace Kude" which started as a folk song and has been contested for generations before the martial arts in Gayo high ground.Then formerly Gayo tribal race at this time the rice harvest highway.

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It is time, harvest time is done on every coming of August, at that moment the race of traditional Gayo Horse race is held. Based on the history of the Gayo tribe, race horse race in a village called Bintang. Horse race competition was started at 08.00 pm until 18.00 pm interrupted with time off and worship.

In the past, jockeys of all ages were not allowed to wear bare-chested clothing and were not offered prizes for the winners but those who were winners only got "thumbs up" and prestige or social status at stake and defended.

Not only stop there, the victory is obtained followed by celebration and gratitude by local residents. The residents contribute to each other for the cost of the horse race victory.

The colonists who were in the area at that time saw the racetrack could be a tool to unite the people, so move the racetrack to Blang Koleng Takengon which is named Musara Alun song.

The tradition of the Gayo Horse race continues to flourish, the Dutch Colonial Government that created the Gayo Horse Society as a spectacle and entertainment for the Dutch troops began funding the changing horse toddler food, the runway arc no longer in the form of long but made oblong and in the castle.

The horse jockeys previously hoisted their horse in chests to the Joki given colorful dresses, and Horse that competed from the entire region of Takengon Central Aceh and surrounding areas.

Gayo people crowded the racetrack to look closely at every performance of the traditional horse racing that was held, so the racetrack became the most amusing folk entertainment on Gayo earth which is currently the race of horse race into a tradition and part of Gayo Aceh Tengah community life.

The district of Central Aceh whose territory included Bener Meriah, Gayo Lues and Aceh Tenggara became horse races on an annual agenda, the Jockeys were not facilitated by body and rope safeguards, barefooted and free-dressed Jockeys.

The race was only monitored by three judges from the center line of the stard and the auxiliary jury standing on the stard. Horses are also driven and controlled by jockeys and horse owners, then clearly visible difference with the traditional horse Gayo community with the existing horse race country.

The traditional horse race race of the Gayo tribe is held twice at any time, and is usually held at the time commemorate today as the anniversary of Takengon City, Independence Day of RI. After Aceh Tengah was divided by the government, Central Aceh was divided into Bener Meriah and Gayo Lues districts, and this horse race was often held by the three districts.

Currently, the racetrack is thriving, the horse race is still very traditional with no saddles, the owners of horses in the three districts are already a lot of horse crossing with Australian horses so now the horses of high and big gayo plateau and known in the racetrack as super horse.

As on the anniversary of the Independence of Indonesia this year, Splendor of the 71st Independence Day RI enlivened with a traditional horse race that became a 'must' event for the Gayo tribe.

A total of 388 horses from Central Aceh, Bener Meriah and Gayo Luwes at that time was lowered to follow the race in the field Haji Muhammad Hasan Gayo Blang Bebangka, Pegasing Subdistrict, Central Aceh.

The three districts are known as the "Three Brothers District" because they have the same customs, tribes, cultures, and nature. The horse race without the saddle Gayo tribe was recorded in the calendar of tourist events of the most western provinces of Indonesia.