page_title: Alun-alun
hierarchical_section_title: Alun-alun
caption_attribution_description: English: Waringin trees (banyan trees of garden estate), on the alun-alun (large central open lawn square) in front of the entrance of the sultan's kraton (royal palace), Yogyakarta, Indonesia - circa 1857-1874 Bahasa Indonesia: Foto. Sepasang beringin (dsebut Wringin Kembar dalam bahasa Jawa) di alun-alun utara Kraton Yogyakarta. Wringin Kembar memiliki arti filosofi seperti gunungan dalam pentas wayang kulit: melambangkan awal perjalanan hidup (kraton adalah simbol kosmologi), keseimbangan alam, hutan (di alun-alun diadakan pertarungan banteng lawan harimau), dan sebagainya. Nederlands: Foto. Voor (en doorgaans ook achter) het paleis (kraton) van een Javaans vorst bevindt zich een alun-alun, een ongeplaveid plein waarop tijdens hoogtijdagen allerlei feestelijkheden plaatsvinden. De foto laat twee geschoren waringins zien omsloten door een hekwerk. Dit zijn de waringin kurung oftewel omsloten waringinbomen. Men kan ze zien als symbolen voor de door de heerser bedwongen wilde natuur. Op dit plein werden aanvankelijk toernooien gehouden, tijger-buffelgevechten en tijgerstekerijen, later vooral de grote Mohammedaanse feesten (garebeg). Het waren dagen waarop de bevolking haar vorsten te zien kreeg. (P. Boomgaard, 2001). De waringins op de alun-alun bij de ingang van de kraton van de sultan van Jogjakarta
context_page_description: An alun-alun is a large, central, open lawn square common to villages, towns and cities in Indonesia.
  Commonly, alun-alun in modern-day Indonesia refers only to the two large open squares of kraton palace compounds.
  Each kraton has two alun-alun: the most important and northern alun-alun lor and the less important and commonly smaller southern alun-alun kidul. The court of Pakubuwana in Surakarta is unique as it incorporates the alun-alun kidul within the defensive wall of the kraton proper.
context_section_description: An alun-alun (Javanese, correctly hyphenated but occurs occasionally without hyphen; also found as aloen-aloen, aloon aloon, and erroneously alon-alon) is a large, central, open lawn square common to villages, towns and cities in Indonesia.
  Commonly, alun-alun in modern-day Indonesia refers only to the two large open squares of kraton palace compounds.
  Each kraton has two alun-alun: the most important and northern alun-alun lor and the less important and commonly smaller southern alun-alun kidul. The court of Pakubuwana in Surakarta is unique as it incorporates the alun-alun kidul within the defensive wall of the kraton proper.
caption: Wringin kurung kembar or the twin trimmed banyan trees enclosed within fences in the center of northern alun-alun of Yogyakarta, circa 1857
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