BEING INSPIRED for the burning of property on October 20, 2015, making thousands of Reog Ponorogo artists hold a demonstration, Tuesday (10/11/2015).

Photo Text: Reog artists protest (ist)
Photo Text: Reog artists protest (ist)
The artists took action by giving speeches, unfurling banners bearing a number of demands, and also performing reog around Ponorogo Square.

After carrying out a series of activities in protest against the burning of property at the Consulate General in Davao, representatives of the mass demonstrations were then allowed to attend an audience at the Ponorogo Regency DPRD Building, Second Floor, located on Jl. East Square, Ponorogo, East Java.

Representatives of the mass of action were received by the leadership of the Ponorogo DPRD along with the Acting Regent of Ponorogo Maskur.

The protesters were not only from Ponorogo, but also from surrounding cities, some even came directly from Jakarta to join this action. Not only that, dozens of reog groups also took part in the action.

Photo test: Reog Ponorogo artists demonstrate (ist)
Photo test: Reog Ponorogo artists demonstrate (ist)
"We do not accept the reyog burning that occurred at the Indonesian Consulate General in Davao some time ago," said Grendo, one of the Reyog artists who are members of the Ponorogo Reog Pandemen Community.

Grendo, who is from Mlarak, continued, so that the perpetrators immediately apologized to the people of Ponorogo. "Our demand is that they immediately apologize to the people of Ponorogo as the owner of this reyog art," he said.

Meanwhile, the Technical section for the staging of the Reog Ponorogo Community (KRP) Suyono, who came directly from Jakarta, said the perpetrators must be investigated and dealt with according to the existing law. "We demand accountability, and what was the motive for the arson!" he said after hearings with the Ponorogo DPRD and Acting Regent Maskur at the DPRD Building. After hearing about the burning of the reog, Suyono and several members of the KRP immediately went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who then after the discussion asked the ministry to write a letter in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would clarify and form an investigation team. The letter was directly delivered by Suyono to Ponorogo to be handed over to the Acting Regent of Ponorogo Maskur. Suyono admitted that he and his friends brought a set of reog property to Davao around 2005. He denied that the reog was burned there because of the damaged condition. If the bamboo from here is impossible for termites to eat, wong is stored neatly in the glass, he said in an annoyed tone