by Oong Maryono
Adapted from Notosuyitno in ‘Miscellaneous Pencak Silat’ 1999:28-30.

Pencak Silat competition is one of the means to perpepuate, develop and socialize pencak silat and to increase the image of pencak silat. Viewed from its development history, [...]

by O’ong Maryono

What is IPSI and how it was started?
The Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia (IPSI) or Indonesian Pencak Silat Organization is a national umbrella organization for Indonesian pencak silat schools. It was funded in 1948 after [...]

By : Oong Maryono
According to the Bahasa Indonesia dictionary, ‘guru’ is a person who has teaching as profession. ‘maha‘ originally derives from Sanskrit, meaning ‘great/big’. Therefore ‘mahaguru‘ is synonym [...]