{{Short description|Javanese blood sport}} {{multiple image |align=right |direction=vertical |image1=COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een tijgergevecht Kediri TMnr 10017893.jpg |caption1= |width1=220 |image2=COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een tijgergevecht TMnr 60005106.jpg |caption2= |width2=220 |image3=Rampog macan in Kediri 1900.jpg |caption3=A Javan tiger killed along with seven leopards during Rampokan in Kediri, East Java, ''circa'' 1900. |width3=220 |image4=Kampf Tiger gegen Bueffel in Solo.jpg |caption4=Print of a fight between a Water buffalo and a tiger in Sunanate of Solo (1847). |width4=220 }}
'''Rampokan''' was a traditional Javan big cat fight. Panthers or tigers were released from wooden boxes and surrounded by warriors with lances trying to prevent them from breaking out of the circle. The rampokan would take place towards the end of Ramadan. It symbolized purification and the overcoming of evil.<ref name=wessing /> If the tigers and panthers succeeded in breaking through the circle, it was seen as an omen of disaster as famine.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} The ritual died out in the early 20th century.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yzORSD5yJjAC&dq=rampokan&pg=PA242 Fengshui in China: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy and Popular Religion] Ole Bruun, University of Hawaii Press, 2003 pages 242, 243</ref> A battle between a tiger and buffalo was the first part of the event in its earlier incarnations, but in later years this was omitted.<ref name=wessing>{{cite web |last=Wessing |first=Robert |title=A Tiger in the Heart: the Javanese Rampok Macan |work=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |publisher=KITLV |url=https://www.academia.edu/5407176 |via= |volume=148 |date=1992 |issue=2 |accessdate=5 December 2015 |pages=287–308}}</ref>
==See also== * Javanese people * Sunda Islands
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