August 17th is Indonesian Independence Day, SD Cibeureum students and Cibening people celebrated on August 15. All people came together to SD Cibeureum school to see the games, there were several traditional games like climbing betel nut tree to get presents, running by using rice sack, taking coin on the fruit, putting the chalk into bottles, and all students got presents.
August 19-20th happens to be a Muslim Eid festival after Ramadhan. Almost all of the villagers celebrate this festival by visiting relatives and their neighbors.
In the mid of August, the weather is very hot with strong wind. It hadn’t been raining for 4 weeks and the guardians helped the land to get water. People in Cibening collected the river water and put it in containers, the water resource has filled up with water. It is expected that the water can be used until the next rain falls.
Every year, when farmer start to open the area for farming, they usually burn the land. The farmers don’t have money to pay the workers to open their land so they burn it, after that they use the hoes to open the land, and early rainy season they can start to plant the rice. This is one of problems in plantation or farming area. Sometimes, the fire can not be controlled because there is hard wind or no water supply available.
The other problem is because the area of farming and plantation huge and there is not enough people to handle. All trees are burnt will be replanted in December in rainy season.