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  2. Jaipongan - Wikipedia

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    Jaipongan, also known as jaipong, is a musical performance genre of the Sundanese people in the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia. Jaipongan includes revived indigenous arts, like gamelan, but it also does not ignore Western music completely despite the ban on rock and roll. It uses the sensuality found in traditional village music and ...

  3. Melinting - Wikipedia

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    The name change was at the suggestion of President Sukarno who asked the Central Lampung Regional Government to perform the dance at Istora Senayan Jakarta on August 17, 1965. Melinting is a dance inherited from Ratu Melinting which is estimated to have existed in the sixteenth century.

  4. Dance in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Papuan tumbu tanah dance. Prior to their contact with the outer world the people of the Indonesian archipelago had already developed their own styles of dancing, still somewhat preserved by those who resist outside influences and choose tribal life in the interior of Sumatra (example: Batak, Nias, Mentawai), of Kalimantan/Borneo (example: Dayak, Punan, Iban), of Java (example: Baduy), of ...

  5. Yapong dance - Wikipedia

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    Yapong dance is a Betawi dance originating in Jakarta, Indonesia. This dance depicts the association of young people created by the artist Bagong Kussudiardja . The Yapong dance was performed for the first time to enliven Jakarta's 450th anniversary event in 1977.

  6. West Java - Wikipedia

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    Jakarta remained as the business and political centre of Indonesia. Several regencies and cities in West Java such as Bogor , Bekasi and Depok were developed as supporting areas for Jakarta and came to form the Greater Jakarta area or Jabodetabek ( Ja karta, Bo gor, De pok, Ta ngerang and Bek asi).

  7. Bambangan Cakil - Wikipedia

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    Bambangan Cakil (Javanese: ꧋ꦧꦩ꧀ꦧꦔꦤ꧀ꦕꦏꦶꦭ꧀) is a classical dance-drama [1] of the Javanese people in—particularly—Central Java, Indonesia. [2] This dance-drama demonstrates wayang performance due to the movement is adopted from one of the scenes in wayang kulit performance, that is the Perang Kembang scene. [3]

  8. Gandrung - Wikipedia

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    Gandrung dance performance in Balinese manuscripts. A collection of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Gandrung derives its name from the Javanese word for "love". [1] It is theorized that the dance originated as a ritual dance to express the people's affection for the rice goddess Dewi Sri, [4] with trance and as a kind of fertility dance. [5]

  9. Kancet Papatai - Wikipedia

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    Kancet Papatai is a traditional Indonesian war dance about a war hero (or Dayak Kenyah) and his struggle against the enemy. [1] The dance also describes his courage and the ceremony awarding him the title Ajai for his victory.