Kasodo is an annual ceremony that always held by indigenous communities Tengger. The ceremony is always held annually in December or January. Kasodo or Kasada a gratitude ceremony conducted by the Tengger people to Sang Hyang Widi. With the existence of this ceremony, the people around asking for an abundant harvest and cure for all diseases. On the other hand, they make offerings to the gods were thrown into the crater of Mount Bromo.
Performed the ceremony at midnight to early morning every full moon Kasodo month according to the Javanese calendar.
The people who provide these offerings should go down to the cliffs and around the crater to catch the offerings from the bottom, it is a symbol of a blessing from the Almighty.
Seizing this offering is also the main attraction of interactive, challenging and scary, because it is quite dangerous for slips and falls into the crater.
This custom was followed for generations by the Tengger and Kasada ceremony is held every year at Poten sea of sand and crater of Mount Bromo.
As Hindus, Tengger tribe does not like Hindus in general, have temples as places of worship, but when doing worship housed in punden, danyang and potent.
Kasodo ceremony itself took place in a temple located at the foot of Mount Bromo north, and then continue to the top of Mount Bromo.
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