HISTORY OF WEAPONS RENCONG ATJEH

NANGGROE Aceh - Negeri Serambi Mekka, Aceh is also known as Tanah Rencong. This is entirely due to Aceh's unique weapons as symbols and symbols of Aceh. "In ancient times on the mainland of Aceh lived a giant bird like Rajawali / Garuda, Acehnese call it" Geureuda "-which means greed-. The existence of the giant bird is very disturbing people's lives. all kinds of plants, fruits and livestock populace dilahapnya. All kinds of pitfalls and weapons used to kill him are not well established, in fact the longer the "Geureuda" is increasingly violent devouring the people's plants, perhaps from that legend until now the Acehnese mentions "Geureuda" to the greedy people.

By the then ruling monarch, ordered a blacksmith who was also a cleric to create a powerful weapon capable of killing the Geureuda. By the blacksmith who has the science of iron maqfirat, after doing fasting, praying circumcision and pray new iron forge options with a mixture of several metal elements into Rencong. Calling Acehnese arms, in addition to guns and firearms, the most famous is Rencong. In fact, one of Aceh's titles is also called "Tanah Rencong". The king also took action by ordering someone smart iron who has knowledge maqfirat iron to make a powerful weapon that can kill the bird. After doing fasting, praying circumcision, and praying to Allah SWT to guide the type of iron and metal taken and the weapons that he will make. In the end the smart iron makes a piece of rencong that looks like bismillah script in Arabic script. On this basic rencong only used in jihat fisabilillah in the fight against invaders and tyranny in this country. Rencong has a level. First, rencong used by kings or sultans. Rencong is generally made of ivory (sarong) as well as pure gold (the side of the dagger). The 2nd, rencong-rencong which is commonly made from buffalo horn or wooden horn, is dagger from brass or white iron. In the history of Aceh, one Acehnese warrior once killed a group of fully armed Dutch soldiers with only a rencong. This moment makes the Dutch colonists very hard hit and even stress think about this strange event. This is the cause of the Dutch mentioning the Acehnese as well as the memory loss or Aceh Pungo. This is also what made rencong also the most deadly weapon ever, until the remaining few thousand Dutch graves in Aceh.