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Buffalo racers in Bali are battling to keep tradition alive

Wearing crowns and colourful horn coverings, the buffaloes haul wooden carts at high speed.

By :  amrit sadhana
Update: 2016-09-05 04:48 GMT
The buffalo racing, known as \"Makepung\", pits two farming communities against each other in western Jembrana district (Photo: AFP)
The typical prize money for each session of the Makepung race is 25 million rupiah ($1,900) but that is split among the whole winning team, often made up of 1-200 people (Photo: AFP)
\"Many of the older racers would like to retire, some are already over 60, but they simply don't have much choice. Somebody needs to preserve the tradition.\" (Photo: AFP)
But regular competitors are now elderly and few of the younger villagers are keen to take up the sport (Photo: AFP)
The season runs from July to November, with races roughly every fortnight, and this year involved about 300 water buffaloes (Photo: AFP)
Hundreds of spectators cheer from the sidelines, hoping their team will come out on top in the annual festival on the Indonesian island (Photo: AFP)
The Makepung tradition started in the 1960s when two communities on either side of the Ijo Gading river took a competitive approach to working their fields (Photo: AFP)
Wearing crowns and colourful horn coverings, the buffaloes haul wooden carts at high speed.

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