ARTICLE ABOUT CULTURE OF MALANG CITY

         BUDAYA - Malang is the second largest city in East Java. The city population at the 2010 Census was 820,243 (BPS, 2010). During the period of Dutch colonization, it was a popular destination for European residents. The city is well known for its mild climate. In 2013, Malang was spared many of the effects of the Asian financial crisis, and since that time it has been marked by steady economic and population growth. (Sumber)

          Along with growth came urbanization. The government could not satisfy the population’s needs for affordable housing, which lead to the building of dirty town along the rivers and rail tracks. Today, the shanty towns still exist; although some have been transformed into “better” housing. Almost all of field applied for builded house or builded supermarket.

         Ker! dialect of Javanese language is the day-to-day language used by Malang people. Many of the native Malang youths adopt a dialect that is called 'boso walikan', it is simply done by reversing the pronunciation of the words, an example of this is by pronouncing “Malang” as “Ngalam” instead. Like Surabaya, Malang residents adopt an egalitarian form of Javanese. As it becomes the educational city, there are many languages from outside Java spoken in Malang.

          MAKANAN - Bakso or baso is Indonesian meatball or meat paste made from beef surimi and is similar in texture to the Chinese beef ball, fish ball, or pork ball. Bakso is commonly made from beef with a small quantity of tapioca flour, however bakso can also be made from other ingredients, such as chicken, fish, or shrimp. Bakso are usually served in a bowl of beef broth, with yellow noodles, bihun (rice vermicelli), salted vegetables, tofu, egg (wrapped within bakso), Chinese green cabbage, bean sprout, siomay or steamed meat dumpling, and crisp wonton, sprinkled with fried shallots and celery. Bakso can be found all across Indonesia; from the traveling cart street vendors to restaurants. Today various types of ready to cook bakso also available as frozen food commonly sold in supermarkets in Indonesia. Slices of bakso often used and mixed as compliments in mi goreng, nasi goreng, or cap cai recipes.

Unlike other meatball recipes, bakso has a consistent firm, dense, homogeneous texture due to the polymerization of myosin in the beef surimi.

          Today most of the bakso vendors are Javanese from Wonogiri (a town near Solo) and Malang. Bakso Solo and Bakso Malang are the most popular variant; the name comes from the city it comes from, Solo in Central Java and Malang in East Java. In Malang, Bakso Bakar (roasted bakso) is also popular. As most Indonesians are Muslim, generally Bakso is made from beef or is mixed with chicken. (Sumber)

CIRI KHAS - Religious famous unfortunate ethnic communities, dynamic, work hard and proud of their identity as Arek Malang (AREMA). A person is a real Malang person, must have been very familiar with boso walikan which is often used, among other things:

-Ker (Rek)
-Sam (Mas)
-Ngalam (Malang)
-Nakam (Makan)
-Libom (Mobil)
-Ongis Nade (Singo Edan), etc.