History of Shadow Puppets

Puppet is one of the top arts and culture of Indonesia's most prominent among many other cultural works. Culture puppets include acting, sound art, music, speech arts, literary arts, painting, sculpture, and art is also symbolic. Puppet culture, evolving over time, is also a lighting media, propaganda, education, entertainment, philosophical understanding, as well as entertainment.

According to research by historians of culture, culture is a culture of wayang native to Indonesia, particularly in Java. The existence of wayang already centuries before Hinduism into Java. Although a popular puppet story in today's society is an adaptation of the works of Indian literature, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The two main story in the puppet undergone many changes and additions to match the original philosophy of Indonesia.

Adjustment philosophical concept is also related to the philosophical position of the Javanese to the gods in the puppet. The gods in the puppet is no longer a free something wrong, but like the other God's creatures, sometimes acting wrong, and could be a mistake. The presence of puppet characters panakawan dalam_ deliberately created the humanists Indonesia (Javanese cultural exact) to reinforce the concept of philosophy that in this world there is no creature that is really good, and really nasty. Every creature is always bearing elements of good and evil.

In his dissertation entitled Bijdrage tot de Kennis van het Javaansche Tooneel (1897), Dutch cultural historian Dr. GA.J. Hazeau expressed confidence that the puppet is a native Java performance. Understanding puppet in the dissertation Dr. Hazeau it is walulang inukir (carved leather) and seen its shadow on the screen. Thus, the question of course is the puppet Puppet as we know it today.
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