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The above picture is a gunungan, a symbol used to mark opening and closing of a Javanese shadow puppet or wayang kulit performance.
Shadow puppet is a traditional folk entertainment popular in Indonesia especially among Javanese people, in which the puppeteer or dalang uses the puppets to tell a story.
Since Javanese people are part of Indonesian people, gunungan is very appropriate to represent the richness of Indonesian folktales and legends.
With the gunungan, we welcome you to the exciting world of Indonesian folk tales and legends.
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The legendIt was said that somewhere in Mount Kramat there was a pond where apsaras descended from kahyangan to take a bath. Jaka Tarub was a young man who lived in a small village. One day, he was hunting for a deer in Mount Kramat but he did not find any deer. While searching fo a deer, he heard the sound of girls laughing. As the place is deep inside the forest, Jaka Tarub wondered why there were girls there. He followed the sound and arrived at a small pond where he saw seven apsaras descended from kahyangan to take a bath. The apsaras looked like young girls and were very beautiful. ... Read more >
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