The opinion of the Rogojampi sub-district office looks different yesterday (20/10). A number of employees and residents look seriously at the number of kris lined up on the table. From the shape, the keris seems to be old.
Dozens of keris in the pendapa were brought by a collector named KRT. H. Ilham Trihadinagoro from Paspan Village, Glagah District. Accidental, teaching staff at SMPN 2 The Rogojampi is holding an exhibition for three days. Of the dozens of heirlooms on display, one of them is an old heirloom.
The heirloom is in the form of a dagger made by Mpu Joko Suro who was quite famous in the Blambangan Kingdom in the 16th century.. The heirloom named keris suro is still preserved in the hands of KRT. H. Ilham Trihadinagoro. “This keris is thought to have been made in a century 16, and the oldest keris in Blambangan,” kata KRT. H. Ilham Trihadinagoro.
The history of making keris suro can not be separated from the history of searching for keris sengkelat by MPU Supo Madrangki. At that time, Mpu Supo Madrangi was the smartest mpu of his time. Mpu Supo Madrangi, light him, husband of Goddess Rasawulan, younger brother of Sunan Kalijaga.
Mpu Supo is a master (dagger expert) The Majapahit kingdom which lived around a century 15. His famous works, among others kris kiai nagasasra, kiai engkelat, and kiai carubuk. One day Mpu Supo asked his sister -in -law, Sunan Kalijaga, where to find the heritage of kiai sengkelat (it means red) lost in the heirloom building of the Majapahit Palace.
Sunan Kalijaga doesn't want to give instructions, but only suggest looking towards the east. In that quest, Mpu Supo arrived in the Tuban area and opened the besalen while looking for information on the whereabouts of the kris kiai sengkelat. After a long time making a keris hermitage in Tuban, Mpu Supo continued his search to the east and eventually settled in the Blambangan region (now Banyuwangi).
Arriving at Blambangan Earth, Mpu Supo makes besalen on the boat. It caught the attention of many people, including Blambangan entrepreneurs, Mpu Pitrang, who at that time lived around Sembulungan, Muncar. In Blambangan, Mpu Supo made two duplicates of Kiai Sengkelat's kris.
Of those two duplicates, one of them was handed over to the king of Blambangan and the other was kept. After a long time Mpu Supo is in Blambangan, Finally he wanted to return to Majapahit while carrying the missing kiai sengkelat keris.
In short, Mpu Pitrang who is also a student of Mpu Supo conveyed to his wife, Goddess Roro Upas, one of the daughters of the Blambangan Kingdom that she was asked by her teacher to look for a keris sengkelat. At that time, Dewi Upas was pregnant.
Before leaving, Mpu Pitrang handed the iron for the keris material to his wife while saying that if his son was born, he was told to give the name Joko Suro. After adult, he was asked to look for him in the Majapahit Kingdom while bringing the evidence in the form of iron given.
When growing up, Joko Suro was asked to meet his father in the Majapahit Kingdom with the iron left by his father. The iron that was brought during the trip was massaged (pressed) with hand. On the way, the iron was turned into a dagger and was given the name of the suro dagger.
"On the surface of the keris there are still four finger massage marks,"explained KRT. H. Ilham Trihadinagoro. Apart from kris suro, Ilham also still has various collections of kris and other heirlooms. However, of all the heirlooms collected, The one with the most strong historical value in Blambangan is the kris suro.
Ilham routinely performs maintenance every year by doing jamasan. Every month Suro Ilham also organizes a heritage exhibition, heirloom, heirloom treatment, and heirloom care consultation in Banyuwangi.
Not only centered in one place, he went around to the sub-districts. Tour exhibition, heirloom, heirloom treatment, and heritage care consultation, it's to introduce heirlooms to the younger generation.
"I regularly hold exhibitions every Suro as a form of preserving heritage objects. Moreover, the Indonesian kris has been registered in UNESCO as a world cultural heritage since 2005," he concluded. (radar)
