Other methods are either no longer practiced or only exist in a more sportive form such as the spear-throwing of pasola or the dance of cakalele.īattle scene on bas-relief of Penataran, Majapahit era Some of these traditions have been preserved as a complete fighting system, e.g. Western misconception links silat with "jungle tribes" but in actuality, pencak silat was neither created nor traditionally practised by Indonesia's tribal inhabitants, many of whom have unique martial arts of their own. Nevertheless, a number of fighting arts in Indonesia are not included within the category of silat. Today, Indonesian fighting styles are synonymous with pencak silat, a term coined for the martial arts of the Indonesian archipelago. Other than physical training, they often include spiritual aspects to cultivate inner strength, inner peace and higher psychological ends. self-defense) is used to mean martial art, and in essence the Indonesian fighting arts are meant as one's defence against perceived threat and assault. In the Indonesian language the term bela-diri (lit. Indonesian martial arts includes a variety of fighting systems native to or developed in the archipelago of Indonesia, both the age-old traditional arts, and the more recently developed hybrid combatives.
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