Puppet (Wayang)

Puppet known since prehistory which is about 1500 years before Christ. Indonesian society embracing animist beliefs in the form of ancestor worship called spirit or dahyang hyang, manifested in the form of statues or pictures.

Wayang is the Indonesian traditional arts are mainly developed in Java and Bali. Puppet show has been recognized by UNESCO on November 7, 2003, as an admirable work in the field of culture and heritage narrative story is beautiful and very valuable (Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity).

There are puppet versions played by people in costume, which is known as the puppet people, and there is also a form of collection of teddy puppet played by the puppeteer. This puppet puppeteer played them in the form of shadow play or puppet show. The story is told in the leather puppet show usually originates from the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Puppet show in every country has its own techniques and style, thereby Indonesian shadow puppets are made by indigenous Indonesian people who have a story, style and extraordinary puppeteer.

Sometimes repertoire Panji stories and stories Menak (Islamic stories) also staged.

Puppet, by the predecessors of this country really contains a very deep meaning. Sunan Kali Guard and Raden Patah was instrumental in developing puppetry. The Guardian in Java has been arranged into three parts. First in East Java, Wayang Kulit, Wayang Wong or Wayang two people in Central Java, and third Marionette Puppet in West Java.

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