2. REINVENTING INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL GAME IN EFL

 HOMPIMPAH AND PINGSUT

In Indonesian traditional children's games or Dolanan, before a game is in progress, first we need to play  lottery game to determine who is entitled to start playing. The system used is Pingsut and Hompimpah. Both systems are used to determine who loses and who wins, just by using your fingers and the palm of our hands.

A. PINGSUT

Pingsut  is  Indonesian version of "Paper rock and Scissors  Game" . There are two players playing this game pitting their fingers (thumb, index finger and pinkie/small finger) according to its symbol . The rule is that the thumb is a symbol of the elephant. The symbol of human is  index finger. Pinkie/ the small finger is  symbol of ants. Pinkie (Ants) will be defeated by Index Finger (Man). Index Finger (Man) is  beaten by elephants. The thumb (Elephants) is defeated by the pinkie/small finger (ants) . 

The use in EFL

1. This game can  used to decide who has to answer a question/start the other game such as Tic Tac Toe, Snake and Ladder or  Spelling Bee, Human Ludo or other games we play.

 
HOMPIMPAH

Hompimpah is a game played by more than two people. Players need to toss the hands while singing a song ( in EFL , we can change it to any English Children song) then show the palms up or down. The winners are decided by the least people who show the "up or down" palms. If there are only two players left, the winner is  decided by Pingsut (Paper, Rock and scissors Game).

THE USE IN EFL

We can use this game either to decide who has to start playing game, decide a group or a partner or to play Phonics game. Students toss their fingers and then  count the fingers using the  letters of the alphabet ( A,B,C so on)  then they need to say a word beginning with such letter . For example : Z. Students have to say a word beginning with Z e.q: Zero, Zebra, Zinc etc.