Nuwou Sesat

Lampung province known to have various types of custom homes, one of which is Nuwou Sesat or Sesat House. Nuwou Sesat is a special custom building society sub ethnic Pepadun Lampung. Although the term penyebutannya Nuwou or home use, custom building is not a dwelling house, but the meeting hall. Therefore, this place commonly called Sesat Great station that serves as a meeting place Purwatin (Penyimbang or custom figure) to provide pepung customary (deliberation). 


Today, the original design Nuwou Sesat increasingly difficult to find. One of the remaining Nuwou Sesat to date can be found in the Country Store Batin, District Blambangan Umpu. Bike home is in the village hundreds of years old. Although the condition has already started bad, but this Bike Nuwou retains its original form, that form the shrines in which columns and most other building materials made ​​from wood, while the roof is made of woven ijuk. At the front of the building there is a staircase that is Ijan roofed deck ijuk to the entrance to the house. Meanwhile, the roof deck Ijan called rurung great.

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