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Also the shadow puppet, the idea of shadow puppet
is also the influence of Hinduism and also Chinese,
so a lot of different parts of it.
It was only developed though around 14th century
probably from the scroll puppet which is called Wayang Beber.
It was used by the Muslim priests to spread Islamic religion
using Hindu stories, the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
From the north part of Java, I think, or, we think
it was originally from Demak and spread to either
Gresik or Cirebon, to the west side
and now spread all over Java.
So even though the story’s a lot of, it is a new story,
but it is adapted into Islam.
One example, the character Arjuna.
Arjuna is an Indian name, by all means,
as we know of the Mahabarata.
We cut it into Juna.
In Javanese it is becoming Janoco.
Jana they translate in Arabic, jana means heaven.
So even the way they explain the character is to that degree.
A lot of people claim that we can put it again back
to the Javanese, but what is Javanese?
A lot of also Islamic Indonesians too now
they are becoming fundamentalist.
They don’t like this idea of wayang, but they forget,
that Islam arrived in Indonesia with wayang kulit.
For me, I always talk with the, also, puppeteers,
not puppeteers but Islam fundamentalists that one of
the greatest achievements of Islam, for the earlier part
of Islam was to bring this puppet becoming Islam.
Let’s say, “(Wayang) kulit saja bisa bersehadad”.
Now a lot of Islamic culture that developed in the last
400 or 500 years becoming radical, radical and ridiculous.
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