Ancient heritage of Indonesia

the history of art shadow puppets history of the origin of art shadow puppets, such as referred to above, could not be separated from the history of puppets own. no concrete evidence on the puppet before the first century, which coincides with the advent of the teachings of Hindu and Buddhist to the area Southeast Asia. it is believed to be the hypothesis that the art come from India or China, where the two countries had had a tradition that has been running hereditary on the use of shadow puppets or shows theater as a whole.
jivan Pani also been issued the opinion that the puppet developing of the two types of art from odisha, East India, that is ravana chhaya which is a theater doll and dance chhau. However, many also telling the history of puppets that has a big impact on the development of theater doll traditional. historical records of the first on the show puppet refers to an inscription that can be tracked from year 930, said the galigi mawayang. that's when until now, some features theater doll traditional still there.
galigi itself is a viewer frequent held to hold the show when there event or ceremony important. at the time, he usually performed a story about the way, a Knight of the story of the Mahabharata. appearance hosted by galigi recorded in kakawin arjunawiwaha made by MPU kanwa in 1035 that mendiskripsikannya as a fast, and only within a puppet of jagatkarana.

said jagatkarana is a phrase to compare real life US with the world perwayangan, where jagatkarana which means the driving the world or mastermind largest only within one screen of US. it is not a lot of the literature describing the history of the origin of art shadow puppets, even so one child part of the art of puppets this has been recognized as the work of culture precious in the field of narrative by UNESCO in dated November 7, 2003. this may be considered for the UNESCO because of all types of puppets existing, shadow puppets is one of the type of puppets the most well known in Indonesia. puppet this leather animals to be the main ingredient types of puppets used in this show.

in the story puppet Java, live a family of the character of the so-called punakawan. punakawan this consists of four and always considered a follower witty of the hero of the main character a story. fourth this person is semar which is also known as left lurah semar, petruk, gareng, and also Bagong. semar own often described as the personification of God, and sometimes also described as soul keeper of the Java itself. in mythology Java, gods there was only able to change the themselves into human bored, because it is also semar always been described as someone who is ugly and fat, and have a hernia hanging. in the history of the origin of art shadow puppets, shadow puppets own divided into several types and one of which is the shadow puppets gagrag banyumasan. for the shadow puppets this type is a style puppetry which is also known as pakeliran. this style assessed as a way to maintain the value, where the care and quality of their show in stage always show this.
Elements in the pakeliran are: the play, Sabet (movement will be made by the puppet), chess (narrative and conversation between the character), as well as karawitan which means the music. another example of the division of the type of shadow puppets other shadow puppets train, appropriate name developed in the train, Borneo the South. the Kingdom of train initially it has to know the art of shadow puppets starts from the early 14th century. this statement be a much more powerful when majapahit finally managed to Occupy some parts Kalimantan and bring a mission to spread the Hindu religion using tactics to hold puppet show the skin. examples of another is puppet Siam famous Kelantan, Malaysia. puppet Siam itself is a show puppet one man show, where the languages used is Malay. from the beginning, there is no clear evidence on the first appearance puppet Siam, so people found this art from Java, follow the symbols very patterned Java. in the present, the interest of young people will art shadow puppets can be assessed very low, given the number of the game based technology can they play. However, there are many parents who actively teach her to appreciate the one of the work of art traditional Indonesia, and tersebutlah needed to advance the shadow puppets in this period.