Gandrung Traditional Art

The government of Banyuwangi gives a special attention to the art of Gandrung. The purpose of this is to grow and possess the spirit of local ethnicity with all the cultures, that basically increase the tourism developmnet. Because of this reason, gandrung, then is determined as the mascot of tourism which is declared in the Banyuwangi Regency Decision, Number 173 in 2002.


The word of gandrung comes from javanese language that means “desperately in love� It means that they are in love in the goddess of paddy, Dewi Sri, that brings the prosperity to the people of Banyuwangi that most of them are farmers.
As the gratitude to the good harvest, the people organize a performance which is called “gandrung� because the farmers were in love or gandrung with the goddess of paddy.

The gandrung performance used to be staged in the night, started at 09 PM until 04 AM. This traditional art gandrung is performed by day too especially to welcome distinguished guests.