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Pencak Silat, an Indonesian Original Martial Arts


Pencak silat is a martial sport that needs a lot of concentration. There are the influence of Chinese culture, Hinduism, and Buddhism in the martial arts. Usually every region in Indonesia have a typical martial arts school. For example, Java famous West Cimande flow and Cikalong, in Central Java and the flow of Merpati Putih in East Java, there is the flow of Shielding Yourself. Every four years there Pencak silat matches in the National Sports Week. Outside of Indonesia also have a lot of fans pencak silat like in Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and America. At the national level sport through games and sports martial arts became one of the archipelago unifying tool, even for a nation's fragrances, and became the nation's identity. It is well known together that Pencak silat sports and games have competed at an international scale, which means that Indonesia is known one of them is through exercise and martial arts games. In Indonesia, a lot of streams in the martial arts, with much of this flow will show the cultural wealth of society in Indonesia with the values in it. Pencak silat is a very high asset value. To the East is physically smaller, more fragile, its main weapon is the technique. Both techniques martial procedures, as well as techniques to improve physical skill using supernatural powers. That is why the Eastern martial Oran many different forms.

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