The custom cloth of Aceh

Aceh is a province in Indonesia that are in the west end of Sumatra. Aceh has given as "Serambi Mekkah'' because the indigeous culture was influenced by islamic culture from Arabian Peninsula. One of the culture in Aceh can be look at the cloth style. The custom cloth of Aceh was acculturation of Malay and Islamic culture.

The custom cloth of Aceh for men was called "Linto Baro" while for women was called "Dara Baroe'. Both of them have the characteristics on every part of them. At once, "Linto Baro" was the custom cloth that was weared by the men when attended the customs ceremony or goverment ceremony. This cloth was estimated since the era of Kingdom of "Perlak" and "Samudra Pasai". The "Linto Baro' cloth consist of Meukasah cloth, the trousers that called "Siluweu", sarong that called "Ija Krong", Rencong that became the traditional weapons of Aceh and the hat that called ''Meukeutop".

1. Meukasah cloth, that is a cloth that usually created from the woven silk fabric that usually have in black colour. Black colour in the trust of Acehnese is as the big symbol at Meukasah cloth.
2. Sileuweu, that is a trousers that used by men. it is usually in black colour. Sileuweu was created by using the cotton fabric. This "sileuweu" was called Celana Cekak Musang, the typical trousers from Malay custom. This trousers was weared with sarong "Ija Krong" that was made of silk.
3. The hat. The influenced of islamic custom in Aceh was also taste with "kopiah" as the complementary of the cloth. The kopiah was called as "Meukeutop". Meukeutop is the oval kopiah that was equipped by the coil of Tangkulok, a coil from silk woven that ornamented star square from gold materialsor brass materials.
4. Rencong. Rencong is the traditional weapon of Aceh. In general, rencong was used by inserted it in folds of sarong at the waist with the handle part was out.

The custom cloth for women or "Dara Baro" in general have in bright colour like red, pink, yellow, green or purple. There are the explanation of that:

1. The cloth (Bajee Kurong). The superior cloth for women is "Baje kurong" with the long arm. This cloth have the collar with embroidery of typical gold yarn like the chinese cloth. This cloth closed all the curved of body and aurat the women. From the cloth form and motive showed that this cloth was the culture combination of Malay, Arab and Tionghoa.
2. Cekak Musang Trousers. In general, the trousers for men and women was same. This trousers used with the sarong coil as the ornament.
3. The head closed and the jewelry. the custom of women was created in islamic style. That was closed the aurat. The head of women was closed by "kerudung" that ornamented of bthe fresh that was called "patham doi". The else part of head was ornamented by jewelry like necklace, bracelet, earrings and the others accecories.