Wayang kulit has a history that stretches back over ... By the seventh century CE, Hindu kingdoms were dominant on both islands. Ever since, Hindu-Buddhist cultural norms have infused indigenous ...

Take the Star Wars-inspired wayang kulit (called “Peperangan Bintang”) for example. Tintoy explained that there are usually four types of wayang kulit stories—main story, branch story, inside story, ...

Along the small rural streets of Kepuhsari, locals can be seen busily working on wayang kulit (shadow puppets). A set of humble wooden tables are usually placed on their house's terrace ...

Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...

Each week, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch ... in a galaxy far, far away …” Wayang kulit has not always had such a positive reception in Kelantan. In 1990, the Islamist ...

THE Kulit Wayang Official Movie Launch, Trailer Premiere and Press Conference was held at the Kulit Wayang Cultural Festival @ KL Base in Sungai Besi recently. The two-day festival was part of the ...

The wayang kulit shadow puppets of Indonesia are such an important cultural and artistic legacy that UNESCO designated the tradition as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

for example. Other puppets will boast elements of street style such as sneakers, beanies and skateboards. “In traditional wayang kulit, the stories are based on the Ramayana and Mahabharata ...

For the next couple of hours everyone is spellbound by one of Bali’s most enigmatic forms of entertainment: the wayang kulit, or shadow puppet show. For small village performances like this ...

conservative Wahhabist religious preacher, Khalid Basalamah has sparked controversy after a statement he made a couple of years ago recently went viral. He made the remarks during a question-and ...

The four punokawan are examples of wayang characters that originated in Indonesia and do not exist in the original Ramayana epic. The museum's wayang collections are stored in glass cabinets, compiled ...