This study identifies strategies to develop Gedruk Dance in kuda kepang show in Kisaran, Sumatera Utara. This art is displayed at family celebrations, circumcisions, weddings and other celebrations. The Gedruk dance is performed at the same time as the kuda kepang show. Gedruk performance is accompanied by a set of musical instruments consisting of drums, saron, demung, bonang, kenong, angklung, selompret and gong. In Kisaran, Gedruk performances are interested in by Javanese and other tribes. The dancers' stomping in the show is heard clinking and creates a lively and festive atmosphere. The term Gedruk comes from the word 'Gedroek' which means stomping the feet. Currently, Bakrie Sumatera Plantations operates engines built by Ruston Hornsby, Schöma, and Diema.Gedruk dance is one of the traditional Javanese performing arts that accentuates the dancers' stomping.

In the early 1950s, the company acquired ten Ruston Hornsby engines, its first diesel engines. The first engines delivered to the company, all 0-6-0T engines, were one Vulcan Iron Works engine, two Davenport engines, and three Orenstein and Koppel engines. While the company's palm oil plantations do not make use of its railroad system, as of 2016, Bakrie Sumatera Plantations still used its railroad to transport rubber. In 1992 Bakrie Sumatera Plantations began converting several of its rubber plantations into palm oil plantations due to palm oil's higher profitability and greater endurance of climate change. In 1990, Bakrie Sumatera Plantations opened a palm oil plantation in Pasaman, and acquired another one in Bah Jambi from P.T. In 1986 Bakrie Group acquired the company from USRC, renaming it to 'PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations' in 1990. In the late 1910s, the company was acquired by United States Rubber Plantation Inc., Sumatra, a subsidiary of United States Rubber Company (USRC).

Hollandsch Amerikaanse Plantage Maatschappij, opening its first rubber plantation in Kisaran. History īakrie Sumatera Plantations was founded in 1911 as N.V. Bakrie Sumatera Plantations manages an estimated one hundred thousand hectares of rubber and palm oil plantations, a railroad for transporting rubber, and several land banks.

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Railway, July 2008īakrie Sumatera Plantations is an agricultural subsidiary of Bakrie Group headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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