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Pacu Jawi
The meaning of “Pacu Jawi” in the local Minangkabau language is running of the bulls. Every year, four rice farming villages on the Indonesian island of Sumatra celebrate the harvest through an ancestral tradition marked by competitions of pairs of young bulls led by jockeys, running in the rice fields submerged by the water. About two hundred participants, of different ages, but only a few manage to complete the crossing. The craziest and most spectacular competition in Asia.
2021 - Length - 6.20 minutes