Hi Hivers!
Today I visited to see Wayang Kulit in Yogyakarta, here I saw a lot of Wayang Kulit on display here.
Wayang kulit is one of Indonesia's cultural works that has been worldwide. Who doesn't know wayang kulit? Indonesian cultural works which include various fields of art. Wayang is an art that contains many values of life that form character, national identity and even Indonesian civilization in each of his works, until on November 7, 2003 UNESCO designated wayang as the Masterpice of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. It did not stop there, wayang Kembali became a proud work on November 4, 2008 by being included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list as a category of Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity with the title The Wayang Puppet theater.
A very proud thing for the Indonesian people, and because of this the Indonesian government finally set 7 November as National Puppet Day (HWN). Behind the development of wayang, which is now known to the world, of course, wayang has a history of its origins. Wayang kulit was born in 1500 BC from Javanese ancestors who played in traditional ceremonies as a ritual of worshiping ancestral spirits, with improvised materials, namely still wearing a kind of tied grass. But then continued to develop in the following years with materials such as animal skins or bark. The oldest wayang appeared during the Jenggala kingdom in 1223 AD, until it continued to grow and evolve with stories that attracted the public's attention.
The most famous story in the Hindu-Buddhist era at that time was the story of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana with an interesting continuity. The development of wayang which is increasingly interesting among the community has made wayang a container in various other activities. One of them is as a forum for the spread of Islam on the island of Java during the Sunan Kalijaga period with adjustments from various fields so that it does not conflict with Islam.
That is the origin of the birth of wayang from the ancestors of the Javanese tribe until now it has become worldwide and various types of wayang have appeared and developed in various regions. In Indonesia, the examples are wayang kulit purwa which developed in Central Java, East Java and Yogyakarta, wayang sasak which developed in NTB, wayang golek Sunda which developed in West Java and many other areas where wayang is grown. Until now, in the WBTb Indonesia data, there are already 60 types of puppets in Indonesia.
