INDONESIA

• Shadow Puppet Theater - a well-known Indonesian theater popular
• Wayang Kulit - in Central Java is one of the oldest continuous traditions of storytelling in the world which includes the use of puppet materials and background music
• "wayang" - theater

  "kulit" - skin
• Dalang (puppeteer)

  • narrates stories to an audience while manipulating the shadows behind a translucent screen using long bamboo rods attached to the puppets' joints.
• The audience is the most important person in a Wayang Kulit performance.
• The puppet on the right side signifies the good character
• the left hand side signifies bad character
• Wayang Kulit was performed in royal court and widely performed in public on religious occasions
• gamelan - a set of musical instruments used in gamelan ensembles
• The dalang sings the mood songs (suluk) at regular intervals during performance