Mitoni Nggak Kaleng-kaleng, Nella Kharisma And Dory Harsa Invite Ki Manteb Soedharsono

Nella Kharisma Pregnant (Photo: IG @nellakharisma)

JAKARTA - Having kept her pregnancy a secret until she is six months old, Nella Kharisma is even happier when her pregnancy has entered the age of seven months. Together with her husband, Dory Harsa is preparing to welcome the birth of her first child. They hold sacred mitoni or tingkeban events.

The tingkeban procession is a tradition to welcome the birth of the first child who is 7 months pregnant. Done with the aim of praying for the baby to be born smoothly and normally.

In Javanese tradition, mitoni has a series of ceremonies as a symbol of prayer and hope for mothers and babies in the womb. One of the symbols is bathing the mother with setaman flower water. The dipper used is made of coconut shells.

This siraman aims to cleanse physically and mentally from the prospective mother and baby in the womb. The mother-to-be must also wear 7 kinds of cloth with various types of motifs or often called jarik, this is done 7 times on the seventh cloth, the answer is "pantes."

Parents take turns bathing pregnant women while saying prayers. Apparently, one of the parents that Rody and Nella asked was not random. In Dory Harsa's Instagram, the puppeteer Ki Manteb Soedharsono participated in their special event by rubbing the heads of the married couple.

As a Javanese artist, the legendary puppeteer Ki Manteb Sudharsono is not haphazard. Ki Manteb Sudharsono is arguably the most expensive puppeteer in Indonesia today.

"Thank you for visiting Grandmother @ki_manteb_soedharsono_official, who has given my blessing to me and my wife," Dory wrote in Javanese, quoted on Monday, June 14.

"Hopefully in the future, he will become a dutiful child to his parents, useful for his country and religion," Dory wrote.