Kebo-Keboan Alasmalang

Kebo-Keboan is a village-level agrarian ritual in Alasmalang, Banyuwangi, where villagers ritually take on the role of buffalo, plowing muddy rice fields, distinct from a similar version held in neighboring Aliyan village. Rooted in an eighteenth-century famine-recovery legend tied to a figure called Buyut Karti, it falls on the tenth day of Sura on the Javanese and Islamic lunar calendar, a genuine ritual practice unlike the purpose-built spectacles of BEC or Gandrung Sewu.

Alasmalang village, in Banyuwangi's Singojuruh subdistrict, holds Kebo-Keboan as a village-level agrarian ritual rather than a government-branded festival, with villagers ritually taking on the role of kebo, or buffalo, plowing and rolling through muddy rice fields in a practice distinct even from the neighboring village of Aliyan, which holds its own separate version of the same underlying tradition.