<![CDATA[The Goong Renteng Panggugah Manah musical tradition in Sukamulya Village, Cigugur District, Kuningan Regency, West Java, constitutes a highly valued form of intangible cultural heritage that faces the threat of extinction due to weak intergenerational transmission among performers and a scarcity of scholarly documentation. This community service program aimed to revitalize this tradition through two principal foci: facilitating the regeneration of young performers and producing comprehensive documentation of its gending repertoire grounded in ethnomusicological expertise. Whereas prior studies of this ensemble have been largely descriptive, addressing its ritual function and social role, this programme is the first to combine structured performer regeneration with systematic kepatihan-notation documentation and a QR-code-enabled learning module for the tradition. The program was conducted over eight months using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach involving a team of ethnomusicology lecturers, eight students, senior maestros, and prospective successors drawn from children and women within the village community. The structured training program recruited 18 participants, 14 of whom were able to perform at least five basic gending in their entirety. Ten traditional gending were documented through high-quality audio-visual recordings, transcription into kepatihan notation, and comprehensive recording of contextual information. Program outputs included a QR-code-enabled learning module, an ISBN-registered music ethnography book, an educational documentary video, and an integrated digital archive. This program demonstrates that a participatory and contextual ethnomusicological approach is effective in accelerating the sustainable regeneration and preservation of traditional music.]]>
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