Tajen Rules Balinese Cockfighting

Repost – Gameness til the End Tajen – Balinese Cockfighting Cockfights, which in Balinese are known as tajen, meklecan or ngadu, are required at temple and purification (mecaru) ceremonies. No one knows when they started. The Tabuh Rah ritual to expel evil spirits always has a cockfight to spill the blood. Tabuh Rah literally means…

Tabuh Rah: Tajen Cockfighting for Religious Purpose in Bali is Every 210 Days

Repost – Gameness til the End Tajen Cockfighting Today Wednesday, 13 December 2006 There are many articles or essays in the net which explains cockfighting in Bali in remarkable detail but they are all in the past. So I will give information in relation with cockfighting in Bali after the 1981 ban up to present…

Tajen Taji Rules and Overview of Bali Indonesia Cockfighting

Repost – Gameness til the End Cockfighting In Bali By Fred B. Eiseman, Jr. Written Especially For Wasantara-Net Introduction In 1981 the government of Indonesia, presumably motivated by high moral principles, decreed that all forms of gambling, including cockfighting, would henceforth be illegal. The results of this law have been about the same as anywhere…