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Wayang Golek is one of the varieties of puppet arts in Indonesia. Unlike the puppets of the skin made of buffalo leather, puppet golek is not made of buffalo skin, but what? Well, rather than curiosity, let's see 6 facts of Indonesian original art puppets below. There is information about the basic ingredients for making puppets too, you know! Without waiting anymore, let's look at the explanation.

1. Made of wood

Puppet Golek is made of wood. The type of wood used is mahogany, there are also those who use albasia wood. While the main tool used to process wood into puppets is not complicated, simply wearing machetes, saws, large and small axes, and carved knives.

The craftsmen of the Puppet Golek likes to use mahogany or albasia for having a good base color, easy to form, and resistant to extreme weather. The process of making puppets is actually not easy, because it needs a process of adding detail motives with certain colors, especially in the crown on the head.

2. There are traditional Sundanese music accompaniment

Puppet Golek is synonymous with traditional West Java music, especially Sundanese. The musical instrument used is usually Sundanese gamelan, which consists of two piecesSaron,a fruitPeking, Selentem,a setboning, kenong, andgong.

Besides that there are also kendang, gambang, and rebab. Even at the performance of puppets in the modern era and airing on television, the musical instrument also adjusts to traditional staging, complete with flutes. As for the example of the 'not just puppet' event on Net TV and 'Opera Van Java' on Trans7.

3. There is the mastermind and sinden

Where there is puppet golek, there must be a mastermind, Sinden, and her musician. For music accompaniment, we have discussed the previous list. Well, it's time for us to discuss the mastermind and Sinden. Indeed, what is the mastermind? The mastermind is a leader, compiler of manuscript, producer, storylet, and puppet drive. It was picked based on the opinion of Claire Holt from Cornell University Press.

Then based on Javanese, the mastermind of the mastermind is that people who explore advice or advice to be submitted to the audience, so the mastermind function is an educator or community teacher. While Sinden is a woman who sings during staging. In the present day, there are 2 pessons. Some famous pesinden examples are upit sarimanah, Titim Patimah, Dewi Gita, Kiki Juliar, and Memes Prameswari.

4. popularized Asep Sunandar

The man whose full name is Asep Sunandar Sunarya is Maestro Wayang Golek in Indonesia who has served as a mastermind during his life. Without him, Puppet Golek will not be as famous now. This man born on September 3, 1955 managed to create a Wayang Golek named Cepot who was Jenaka, Arjuna with his arrow, Bima with his new, and luxurious puppet clothes.

Many awards achieved Asep Sunandar, namely being an artistic ambassador in 1986, the extraordinary lecturer in France in 1993. And a year after, namely in 1994, Asep Sunandar began stage abroad such as Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland Until 1995 won the Satya Badge cultural award from the Indonesian government. Even Ki Asep has its own event on a local television station like TVRI and MNCTV.

Ki Asep has died on March 31, 2014 at the age of 58 years due to heart disease. Even so, our works and achievements will always be recalled, right?

5. Have a long history

Wayang Golek has a very long history, you know. It is estimated that Puppet Golek has been around since 1583 made by Sunan Kudus. The initial deployment of Puppet Golek is in the northern coastal area of ​​Java, especially in the Cirebon area. At that time, the puppet golek played was a type of powder that had a flat head shape. Then, Puppet Golek became increasingly known since telling the history of Javanese land in the 1650s.

Then in the early 1800s, the Sixth Bandung Regent named R.A Wiranatakusumah II also popularized the period Puppet Golek, which was still a type of powder, became a puppet of Sundanese Golek whose form we knew at this time. Since then, Puppet Golek is increasingly known through West Java. Some of the mastermind who participated in popularizing puppets to foreign countries was Tarkim, R.U. Partasuanda, Abeng Sunarya, whether Tirayana, apek, Asep Sunandar Sunarya, and Cecep Supriadi.

6. There are many legendary powder figures

Puppet Golek is closely related to Sundanese history and culture. Thus, the figures who emerged from the story of the puppet puppet also had unique properties to support the story of the mastermind. Well, this time we will introduce some legendary powan figures. Is there anyone?

The first is Gatotkaca. This figure has been legendary and has been known to foreign countries. Even Gatotkaca becomes a character in famous online games. Historically, Gatotkaca is the child of Arya Bima and Arimbi. Gatotkaca has very extraordinary strength and can fly. The nickname is the iron bone wire muscle. Then the next figure is Arjuna who is the most popular figure. He has a handsome face and a handsome body. He also has a final weapon like Pasopati's arrow.

And the next famous puppet figure is a quick named Astrajingga or Bagong, the first child of the Semar and Sutiragen pair. Cepot became one of the favorite figures of the Puppet Golek audience because of its humorous nature and sometimes sucks, thus melting the atmosphere after a tense battle story.

Well, that's 8 interesting facts about Indonesian original art, puppets. What do you think? Are the facts above answer your curiosity? Or are there other questions about puppets? If yes, you can ask in the comments column, huh!