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Intangible Cultural Heritage
Cultural practices and expressions linked to Balafon and Kolintang in Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia. The balafon (in Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire) and kolintang (in Indonesia) refer to a set of wooden xylophones of different lengths. The kolintang is played during religious ceremonies and rituals and is associated with philosophical, ethical and aesthetic values that establish ties between people of different backgrounds and with nature.
Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. The most common instruments used are metallophones (played with mallets) and a set of hand-drums called kendang, which keep the beat. The kemanak, a banana-shaped idiophone, and the gangsa, another metallophone, are also commonly used gamelan instruments on Bali. Other notable instruments include xylophones, bamboo flutes (similar to the Indian bansuri), a bowed string instrument called a rebab (somewhat similar to the gadulka of Bulgaria), and a zither-like instrument called a siter, used in Javanese gamelan. Additionally, vocalists may be featured, being referred to as sindhen for females or gerong for males.
Indonesian Angklung. is a musical instrument from the Sundanese in Indonesia that is made of a varying number of bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to produce a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves, similar to Western handbells. The base of the frame is held in one hand, while the other hand shakes the instrument, causing a repeating note to sound. Each performer in an angklung ensemble is typically responsible for just one pitch, sounding their individual angklung at the appropriate times to produce complete melodies.
Indonesian Batik is hand-dyed cotton and silk garments. Batik is dyed by proud craftspeople who draw designs on fabric using dots and lines of hot wax, which resists vegetable and other dyes and therefore allows the artisan to colour selectively by soaking the cloth in one colour, removing the wax with boiling water and repeating if multiple colours are desired.
Indonesian Kris is a Javanese asymmetrical dagger with a distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and nickelous iron (pamor). It is embedded in a mutually-connected whole of ritual prescriptions and acts, ceremonies, storied backgrounds, and epic poetry. The kris itself is considered a cultural symbol of Indonesia.
Kebaya: knowledge, skills, traditions and practices is an upper garment opened at the front that is traditionally made from lightweight fabrics such as brocade, cotton, gauze, lace, or voile, and sometimes adorned with embroidery. The front is secured with either buttons, pins, or brooches. The lower garment for the outfit is known as sarong,
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Pinisi, art of boatbuilding in South Sulawesi. A pinisi is a type of rigging (the configuration of masts, sails and ropes or ‘lines’) of Indonesian sailing vessels. A pinisi carries seven to eight sails on two masts. Unlike most Western ships using such a rig, the two main sails are not opened by raising the spars they are attached to, but the sails are ‘pulled out’ like curtains along the gaffs which are fixed at around the centre of the masts. Today, the word ‘pinisi’ is, often rather indiscriminately, used to name most types of wooden ships of Indonesia.
Reog Ponorogo performing art is a centuries-old theatrical dance that is traditionally performed on disaster aversion ceremonies, village cleansing events, weddings, Islamic and national holidays, circumcisions, thanksgiving ceremonies, public festivities, and when welcoming.
Saman dance (the dance of a thousand hands) is one of the most popular dances in Indonesia. Its origin is from the Gayo ethnic group from Gayo Lues, Aceh province, Indonesia, and it is usually performed to celebrate important occasions. The dance is characterized by its fast-paced rhythm and common harmony between dancers. Saman is widely known and practiced in Indonesia, Is relatively easy to learn.
Three genres of traditional dance in Bali. 1. Barong, king of the spirits. 2. Baris war dances. 3. Cendrawasih, the bird of paradise. 4. Condong, a basic dance, is front to Legong. 5. Legong, a refined dance. 6. Kecak, the Ramayana monkey chant dance. 7. Janger, a sitting dance with swaying movements.
Traditions of Pencak Silat. is a class of related Indonesian martial arts. It is a full-body fighting form incorporating strikes, grappling, and throwing, in addition to weaponry. Every part of the body is used and subject to attack. Pencak silat was practiced not only for physical defence but also for psychological ends. There are hundreds of different pencak silat styles (aliran) and schools (perguruan) which tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, weaponry, or some combination thereof.
Wayang puppet theatre is a traditional Javanese form of puppet theatre. Performances are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali. The dramatic stories depict mythologies, such as episodes from the Hindu epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, as well as local adaptations of cultural legends. Traditionally, a wayang is played out in a ritualized midnight-to-dawn show by a dalang, an artist and spiritual leader; people watch the show from both sides of the screen.
