THE WAYANG KULIT
The shadow theater or also known as wayang kulit is a traditional story telling that has been told using shadow manipulation of puppet and being accompanies with traditional music or gamelan music in Indonesia.
The wayang kulit is not just being perform in Indonesia but in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Laos with different story telling. But the sad thing is this kind of performance is getting lose through the time because nobody is interesting because the modern technology. Someday , the wayang kulit will completely lose in this world because nobody want to continue it.
Few year back when i was visiting Jogjakarta , i am lucky enough to meet tok dalang or the one who responsible telling story behind the wayang kulit. Even though i not lucky enough to see the show because i already left Jogjakarta when the show happen, but talking to them and see how they make all the puppet make me sad. Its not because they bad making those thing but they told me there will no wayang kulit after their generation because the youngster is not interested to learn about it.
Indonesia Shadow Puppets - "Babad Majapahit"
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POTRAIT OF TOK DALANG
ONE OF HIS WORKER DOING MANTAINANCE TO THE PUPPET
ONE INSTRUMENT FOR THE GAMELAN MUSIC
Wayang kulit is getting lose in this world because of the modern world. At the end , we only see those instrument and puppet only being keep and shown in the museum.
ABOUT THE TRAVEL
Few years back before pandemic , Im was lucky enough to travel solo in most places in ASEAN about 2 years . It was a full of good memory and great experience to learn the different culture, language and religion . I make a lot of new friend which has become my best buddy until now.
I going back to my country in Malaysia after my travel insurances was expired . When i come back to my home town , i share my experience in photography and taking picture for my fulltime job. The pandemic hit my country hard and all the photographer has no job until now , which give me much time to write about my travel journey in travelfeed.io for my documentation.
Previously i share my story in another community , but recently i realize that i should share my story in @asean.hive community which tell more story about ASEAN people and a lot picture to be share. I also allocated a little percent of every story beneficiaries to giving back for the community.