Cilegon Golok Festival as a Form of Preserving Banten Cultural Values

The Golok Festival is an event that aims to preserve the typical weapon of Cilegon City, namely the Golok, besides that the Golok Festival is a gathering place for the silat warriors who used to fight for Cilegon City during the colonial period. This study aims to describe the history and uniqueness and meaning of the Golok Festival as a form of preserving Banten cultural values. This type of research uses historical research methods with all its problems, namely heuristics, verification, interpretation and historiography. The results of the analysis show that the Golok Festival was first held on November 10, 2015 which was held at the Cibeber Perumnas Roundabout, Cilegon District. The warriors in Cilegon always carry a machete in every activity with a cultural background, because basically the machete is a complement to the silat warrior's attire. The role of the machete is always with the warrior, so Golok is used as a festival event to remind the warriors' struggle against colonialism. A machete is a large knife made of iron or steel that is used for splitting and cutting. During the struggle, the machete became a tool or weapon for war, because at that time Indonesia did not have sophisticated weapons. For example, the armed incident of the Cilegon people against the rule of the Dutch East Indies on July 9, 1888.