The History of Betung Village

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BETUNG VILLAGE

My father come from Betung village, OKU Timur, Sumatera Selatan. So when I have holiday idul fitri 1432H I and my family went to Betung. Betung means bamboo, beginning there is someone gave choise to Betung’s people for that village’s name there are Betung and Kedaton and then that someone said “If you choosed Kedaton, so just the champions will stay or live in here. But if you choosed Betung , there will be so many people live in here and you can have very much descendant. So, the people of Betung village choosed Betung as name of their village because they want so many people stay in there.

Now, Betung is historical graveyard village (Desa Pemakaman Bersejarah) in OKUT. There are 52 great grandparents’s grave. The great grandparents’s grave divide to 4 groups base on the place of grave of great grandparents. There are Muyang Morbau and Muyang Libu in downstream of village and Muyang Hulutiuh in upstream of village. Muyang Merbau and Libu separated by river, in Muyang Libu there is Tuan Junjungan who was made large drum (beduk) of Masjid Agung Palembang but before that Tuan Junjungan divided the wood to 2 parts so, the one for Masjid Agung Palembang and the other for Masjid Agung Betung.

Before 2004, the existence of great grandparents’s grave in Betung village is not know yet by people in Betung village and society outside Betung village but after Bapak H. Herman Deru become regent of OKU Timur that is division of OKU regency. Betung village become historical village because there are so many grave of great grandparents and the regent create a monument which contsins are all of great grand parents’s names that buried in Betung village.