RANUP LAMPUAN DANCE
Pemulia jamee adat geutanyoe (to honour the guest is our traditional custom)
is a slogan of Visit Aceh program in 2011. One of the way to honour the
guest that come to Aceh is by this welcoming dance, ranup lampuan
Ranup Lampuan is a dance that make to
welcome the guest that come to visit Aceh. The
dance is very popular in Aceh especially in big
events such as graduation ceremony or any
governmental events. The dance is popular at
Banda Aceh as its province capital city, but soon
it goes to other parts of Aceh. At the beginning,
the dancers are not wearing hijab, but they wear
a tall hair bun.
The ranup lampuan literally means a betel inside
a bowl. Acehnese usually also chew betel leaf
which inside it has areca nut which is called
ranup. Puan is an Acehnese brass bowl where thebetel is put inside it and put as offering to the
special guest.