JAKARTA: “Daasshh!” Mr Zakaria, a 90-year-old Indonesian pencak silat master exclaimed as he kicked his right leg high into the air, showing off his martial art skills. Mr Zakaria, who goes by one ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pencak Silat martial art has been identified as the world’s cultural heritage during UNESCO’s 14th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible ...

The Indonesian embassy in Doha, in collaboration with Qatar Museums, Qatar Foundation and with the support of the Indonesian Community Association in Qatar (Permiqa) as well as the ministry of ...

Anything a boy can do, girls at the Northern Colorado Martial Arts Academy can do … and sometimes better. Boys and men make up roughly 70-80% of all martial arts practitioners across the world, but ...

Pencak Silat is one of the new additions to the 18th Asian Games, which will be grouped under the Martial Arts events. It shares a place on the events list alongside other new additions like Wushu, ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Hilmar Farid, the Director-General of the Education and Culture Ministry’s Directorate of Culture, explained why UNESCO recognized pencak silat as an intangible cultural heritage ...

The Davao Region pencak silat team has resumed full training ahead of the 2026 Palarong Pambansa, sharpening its form in both combat (tanding) and artistic (sen ...

raditional Indonesian martial art pencak silat was added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Bogota, Colombia, on Thursday local time. The announcement ...

Viet Nam was placed second on the medals table of the World Pencak Silat Championships, which took place in Phuket, Thailand, from January 10 to 16. Viet Nam was placed second on the medals table of ...

Cambodia’s pencak silat athletes will benefit from fresh expertise as Indonesia has dispatched a senior coach to train practitioners of Indonesia’s traditional martial art. He will train fighters in ...