Coba jelasin Petung’s Mount dari Talok, Turen, Malang dong

The name of Petung’s Mount were inspired by the area in Talok who had lots of petung’s bambooes. This mount is located on Madyorenggo. Petung’s Mount had become a history site in Talok Village because there are several heritages, namely Talok Tree, Mbah Mulud’s tomb (punden in Java language), Mbah Karimun’s tomb and his wife, Nyi Sri Murti’s tomb.  All of them were parts of contributed figure of establishing Talok Village especially in Madyorenggo when Mataram Islam’s Kingdom still endure.

In the peak of Petung’s Mount, there was a Taloka tree which is now known as Talok’s tree. The thing that make people consider a cherry tree as a Talok’s tree because they have never seen that tree actually and they didn’t know the history.

Even if we see the history, this tree was a relic of history that became the forerunner of Talok Village name. This tree hadn’t been found in a long time , since the real one had been cut down on 1976 by some people irresponsibly.

After 2020, Taloka Tree had been founded by a group of people that named Gunung Petung Peduli (GPP), this is an organization that concern about history and relics of Talok Village. This tree has already found about 50 meters from the original tree, precisely to the southwest of Mbah Mulud’s Punden. Now this tree are maintained by the government village and others who care. So, it used as the main icon of Talok Village.

In Petung’s Mount, there’s also Nyi Sri Murti’s Punden. He was a migrant from a solo which she was a famous dancer at that time. She had beautiful face, his face was round, wearing red blended with yellow shawl and wear three of sundhuk menthol with floral motifs, and a stitch. It is said that if someone who wants to be a famous dancer then he must meditates in Watu Leter and brings seven forms of flowers (flat stone) which is located beside his tomb.