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Wayang Golek, Traditional Art of Indonesia (Puppet)

Wayang Golek is an art of traditional Sundanese wayang puppet made from wood,which is particularly very popular in region Land Area, its spread Pasundan sprawlingfrom Cirebon in West Java area of the East side to the West, even in areas borderingCentral Java West Java also performed fewer Wayang Golek.

Wayang, Puppet

Puppet is a form of folk theater that is very popular, especially in Java and Bali. People often associate the word "puppet" by "the shadow", as seen from the wayang kulit performances put on screen, which appears the shadow-a shadow. In West Java, in addition to the well-known wayang kulit, the most popular is the Wayang golek. 

The term came to refer to the two meanings of the Word as a verb, it came to mean ' search ', as a noun means wooden puppet show. with regard to the wayang golek, there are two kinds of wayang golek papak (cepak puppets) and wayang golek purwa in Sunda. Unless the puppet people is a form of dance-drama that performed human forms, mostly played by a puppet puppeteer as leader of recital and sang the suluk, voiced antawacana, set of gamelan set song and others.

Wayang Golek, Traditional Art of Indonesia (Puppet)

Patterns of performance 

As the storyline of the show, in generally puppet wayang golek also usually have the play-lakon carangan and strain well. The story line can be taken from folklore such as the spread of Islam by Walangsungsang and Rara Santang nor from the epic Ramayana story sourced from and Rejecting using the Sundanese language Sundanese gamelan accompaniment with (slendro), consisting of two pieces of Sharon, a peking, a selentem, one device, one device boning boning rincik, one pair of gong, kenong device (kempul and goong), coupled with a set of kendang (an Ovarian and three drum fruits kulanter), xylophone and rebab.


In the wayang golek performance, the play is a play performed the usual carangan. Only occasionally have performed the play strains. This seems to be the size of the cleverness of the puppeteer created the play a great and interesting carangan. Some well-known wayang golek (puppeteer) including Partasuanda, R.U., Tarkim Abeng Sunarya, Either Tirayana, Asep Sunandar Sunarya, musty mildew, Cecep Supriadi, ki dalang IIN revelation iskandar etc. Wayang golek pengadegan patterns are as follows;

  • Tatalu, puppeteer and stage ride, sinden gending jejer/kawit, murwa, nyandra, Tausug/kakawen, and biantara;
  • The unjal, Assembly Hall, and bebegalan
  • Nagara sejen
  • Patepah
  • Failed war
  • Punokawan/goro-goro
  • Flower war
  • War is a racket
  • Tutug


One of the functions of the puppet in the community is ngaruat (ruwat), which is clear from accidents (mean). Some people are diruwat (sukerta), among other things:


  • Wunggal (child)
  • Pay the Bugang (a younger brother that his brother died)
  • Suramba (four sons)
  • Three parts: (four daughters)
  • The Pandavas (five sons)
  • Pandawi (fifth daughter)
  • Talaga Date Kausak (son of dihapit daughter)
  • Ocean hapit sindang (a daughter of dihapit two sons), and so on.
Yeah, that is about "Wayang Golek, Traditional Art of Indonesia" (Puppet). Thak You...



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