The Javanese are an Indonesian ethnic group with a long history of rice cultivation culture. However, there is no concrete research detailing the Javanese tradition of using postharvest rice plant materials in daily life. Moreover, after the Green Revolution, the outputs of postharvest rice plants were only classified into two categories: rice as the main commodity product and the rest as waste materials which are burned or absorbed for industrial or livestock needs. These facts are in contrast with the Javanese traditional culture, which optimizes all parts from the postharvest rice plant in daily life activities for both utility and ritual items. This utilization culture was supported by both the physical characteristics of the local rice plant variety and the traditional scheme of postharvest activities. Such activities included cutting the harvested rice plants, distributing, storing, processing into rice and processing unused parts. With these five activities, Javanese were utilizing the postharvest rice plant materials beras (rice), mrambut (rice husk), bekatul (rice bran), wuli (rice ears), merang (panicle stem) and damen (rice straw). In the postharvest scheme there were 7 values practiced by the Javanese community. These were spiritual, economical, ecological, social, utility, mythological and education values.
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