Puppet As Nation Cultural Assets

Indonesia is rich in cultural diversity and linguistic diversity is one of the works of art among the puppets. Puppet can be categorized into several groups that there are shadow puppets and perform puppet arts people. Puppet entered Indonesia from the time of the entry of Islamic influence brought by the trustees Songo, the spread of Islam in Indonesia conducted by the cultural approach to the shadow puppet play, with puppet usage as the medium of preaching and teaching of Islam.

In every performance there are puppet theater or acting title, this shadow play performance according to belief, many containing mystical things. One example is the title of the play usually affect what is performed daily, meaning there will be something that happens in accordance with what is performed. It sounds odd but this is reality, it's up to us whether it's one of the phenomena of the performances of the wayang kulit, or just something that happens to. In each show story lifted from a variety of events, the story of the struggle in the past or about other puppet story. There is also a story that show took place in the community around there is also a lifting stories about things that are happening in government.

Equipment used in the leather puppet play has many meanings, such as puppets or actors of the puppet, color as the sky, the banana tree as the earth where berpijat and much more meaning contained in a work of art. In the puppet show usually performed by a puppeteer, not just anyone can perform a shadow puppet, there must be rituals and procedures before becoming a puppeteer. Show own dilukan with sinden or singer, at each regular gig there 3 or more sinden that accompany the mastermind in the shadow play staged. Wayang kulit is one of the nation's assets that must be kept the performance by doing actively in every opportunity, do not let this nation's assets claimed by other countries. Our job as citizens country to maintain and preserve our culture.