Story Telling Dina
Story Telling Dina
Story Telling Dina
The war between Prambanan and Pengging could not be avoided. Prambanan lost the war and
led by the new king, Bandung Bondowoso. Pengging could win the war because Bandung
Bondongwoso had supernatural power.
His soldiers were not only humans but also genies. Those creatures always obeyed Bandung
Bondowoso. They always did whatever Bandung Bondowoso asked them to do. The king of
Prambanan had a beautiful daughter. Her name was Loro Jonggrang (Rara Jonggrang).
Bandung Bondowoso fell in love with her and wanted to marry her.
"If you want to marry me, you must build a thousand temples in just one night," said Loro
Jonggrang.
She hated Bandung Bondowoso because he made the people of Prambanan suffer.
"What? Impossible! You just gave me an excuse for not marrying me!" said Bandung
Bondowoso. But he didn't give up. He asked the genies to help him.
Then, all those genies worked hard to build the 1.000 temples. Meanwhile, Loro Jonggrang
heard from the lady-inwaiting that the building of 1.000 temples was almost finished.
She was so scared; she did not want to marry Bandung Bondowoso. And then she had a great
idea. She asked all the ladies who were waiting to help her.
"Please prepare a lot of straw and mortar. Come on! Hurry up!" said Loro Jonggrang.
All those ladies-in-waiting were confused. They did not know why Loro Jonggrang asked
them to prepare a lot of straw and mortars in the middle of the night.
"Listen, all those genies are building the temples, right? We must stop them by burning the
straw and making some noise by pounding the mortar. The genies will think that the sun will
rise, and they will run away. Genies are afraid of sunlight."
It worked! All those genies thought that the sun rose. They didn't know the light was from the
fire that burned the straw. And the noise from pounding the mortar was like the start of a new
day.
Bandung Bondowoso was angry. He knew Loro Jonggrang just tricked him.
"You cannot fool me, Loro Jonggrang. I already have 999 temples. I just need one more
temple. Now, I will make you the one-thousandth temple."
With his supernatural power, Bandung Bondowoso made Loro Jonggrang a temple. Until
now, the temple has been standing in the Prambanan area, Central Java. The temple is named
Loro Jonggrang temple.
This is the end of my story and the moral value of the story is “don’t ever make a promise if
you can’t keep it well.”
A monkey is stealing apple pie,
It presses a button to open the gateway.
I promise this is not a goodbye,
I will see you again someday.
That’s all of me, if there’s any mistakes, please forgive me. Wassalamualaikum Wr., Wb.