Tung Tung Tung Sahur 📖 Wikipedia

Tung Tung Tung Sahur
Italian brainrot character
Original image of Tung Tung Tung Sahur
First appearance	February 28, 2025
Created by	Noxa
Based on	Ramadan tradition
Medium	AI art

Tung Tung Tung Sahur (/ˈtuːŋ ˌsaˈhur/ TOONG sa-HOOR), sometimes shortened to Tung Tung Sahur or Triple T,^[a] is a viral Internet meme. It was introduced in 2025 by TikTok user @noxaasht as a part of the Italian brainrot trend, though it is of Indonesian origin.^[1] The character has since been featured in many songs and video games, including Steal a Brainrot and Fortnite.^[2]

Tung Tung Tung Sahur is an AI-generated anthropomorphic Kentongan (slit drum) holding a wooden drumstick,^[3] sometimes identified as a bat.

As it is an AI-generated image, Tung Tung Tung Sahur is ineligible for copyright protection under many jurisdictions. Despite this, Paris-based company Mementum Lab has claimed to have copyright over the likeness of the character.^[4][5]

"Tung tung sahur" is an informal phrase that emerged from traditional practices associated with sahur, the pre-dawn meal consumed by Muslims during the month of Ramadan. In various regions, particularly in Southeast Asia, communities have historically used rhythmic drumming, chanting, or other forms of noise-making as a wake-up call for residents.^[3] In Indonesia specifically, this practice is done by calling out and making percussive sounds with drums, kentongan, improvised containers, or other noisy objects.^[6] The expression "tung tung" serves as onomatopoeia, imitating the sound of percussive instruments used in these wake-up calls.^[3]

The Kentongan is a traditional communication tool made from bamboo and wood, with materials including bamboo, bamboo petung (Dendrocalamus asper), bamboo apus (Gigantochloa apus), bamboo wulung (Gigantochloa atroviolacea), jackfruit wood, teak, coconut wood, mahogany, and sengon. The instrument was used because its sound could travel across a neighbourhood without modern electrical technology, making it suitable for villages, kampung settlements, mosque compounds, ronda posts, and other communal spaces.^[7]

No firm historical record has been found for the exact beginning of this practice. Historian Sarkawi B. Husain of Airlangga University, suggests that the practice may have developed after the arrival of Islam in Indonesia, rather than a directly imported Middle Eastern custom. There are regional differences, such as ngarak beduk or beduk sahur in Jakarta and bagarakan sahur in among the Banjar in South Kalimantan, where people use simple objects such as pans, water gallons, radios, and other sound-making tools in place of a Kentongan.^[8] In Javanese Muslim communities, they are often placed in mosque or prayer-house verandas beside the bedug, with both instruments used in religious timekeeping, including the marking of prayer times and the breaking of the fast during Ramadan.^[9] In some communities, it is also used as a marker of social status based on wood type, size, and placement.^[10] Though in many places in the advent of modernization and technological advancement, the kentongan has seen a gradual replacement or supplemented by the bedug, mosque loudspeakers, portable speakers, drums, jerrycans, electric instruments, and vehicle-mounted sound systems.^[11]

Different rhythms, tempos, and repetitions by a kentungan could signal different meanings. A slow rhythm could indicate safe conditions during ronda, while a fast and continuous rhythm, often called gobyok or titir, could signal danger such as fire, flood, theft, landslide, or the arrival of wild animals. The instrument also called people to meetings, gotong royong, kenduri, posyandu, and other local gatherings.^[7]

Pos ronda, also called gardu pos ronda, pos kamling, or in some Javanese contexts cakruk, is the small neighbourhood guard post where residents gather before or during night patrols (ronda malam), usually according to a rotating neighbourhood schedule. Usually a pos ronda has a place to sit, record attendance, drink coffee, wait between patrol rounds, store basic equipment, and respond when something happens.^[12] It is associated with ronda malam (night patrol) and siskamling (neighborhood watch). The formal/modern term of pos ronda is a Pos Satkamling. According to Perpolri No. 4 Tahun 2020, Satkamling is a community security unit formed by residents through their own will, awareness, and interest to secure their environment, while Pos Satkamling is the building or place used as the centre of Satkamling activities.^[13][14]

The building is commonly found at the rukun tetangga (RT) administrative level. It may be built from bamboo, wood, masonry, or mixed materials; its roof may use forms such as kampung, joglo, or panggangpe; and its floor may either be raised like a panggung/kolong (stilt house) or sit directly on the ground.^[15] Originating from precolonial Java,^[15] the modern institutional form of the pos ronda was strongly shaped during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia via the through tonarigumi and Keibodan neighbourhood units.^[16][15]

Tung Tung Tung Sahur was formerly featured in Steal a Brainrot, a game distributed through the Roblox platform. It was removed in September 2025 after a copyright dispute.^[17] However, Tung Tung Tung Sahur was added back to the game in November 2025, and later removed again in April 2026.

In 2026, a rumor circulated that Tung Tung Tung Sahur, alongside similar character Ballerina Cappuccina would be included as a cosmetic purchase in the live service video game Fortnite. This was substantiated by a supposed leak claiming that the outfits would be released on April 1, 2026.^[18]

On March 18, 2026, Fortnite uploaded a trailer which confirmed the leaks by featuring both characters. The reception to their inclusion was largely negative, with fans voting them as being the worst cosmetic skins in the game. Some players claimed that they would specifically target those who use the cosmetics in-game. Many felt it was in poor taste to include an AI-generated character following a mass lay-off at Epic Games in early 2026, which affected many artists working on Fortnite.^[19][20]

Both Tung Tung Tung Sahur and Ballerina Cappuccina would later become available for purchase on April 4, 2026.^[21][22]