Acehnese women's traditions sing beautiful poems while delivering their children to sleep ( Peuratep Aneuk)

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Aceh has a variety of cultures and customs that amaze the world, one of which is the tradition of singing poetry to deliver small children to sleep (Peuratep). But as the development of the tradition is almost extinct, only a few are still using this unique tradition. As in the video above, a mother is singing a beautiful poem while swinging her child in a swing. It seems that the child enjoys the poetry chanting sung by his mother, until the child falls asleep. For children in Aceh, this tradition might be familiar, they must have felt it as a child. What about your childhood, have you experienced this?

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