Matdon, The Jakarta Post, Bandung
Benjang is a traditional game that is believed to have been developed in the Islamic boarding schools of Ujungberung, Cobolerang and Cinunuk districts in Bandung regency.
Benjang players usually pray to have fun and for fair play before a game. The instruments used in benjang include the terbang gendang (a conical-shaped drum [...]

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP): Cheak Bun Hong has chosen his sport wisely. Despite only one year’s experience in the martial art of sanshou wushu, the Cambodian got as far as the quarterfinals at the Southeast Asian Games.

By O’ong Maryono
In Indonesia, the adventures of women warriors are often depicted in traditional theater forms, such as the wayang kulit (leather puppets) and wayang orang (human puppets). In the story of Mahabarata, Srikandi [...]

Many of the readers may wonder what pencak silat actually is. In the Philippines, with its many martial arts forms, pencak silat is still relatively unknown. And yet, pencak silat is part of our common Malay culture which covers Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines and some small islands close to them. In all [...]

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 [...]

In between times during the effort to pursue a dream to give form to the richness of pencak silat so that it may one day be competetive on the levels of an Asian Games or even as an Olympic event, the prime figures of the silat world have allowed other aspects contained within the art [...]

The History of the Aliran (style) of Betawi silat, Jiencin
In the past, silat wasn’t a widely recognised word to describe the indiginous martial arts. People (in the Sunda area) called it maen pukul , which literally translates as maen=playing and pukul=hit or to hit.
About two weeks ago, a heavy rain drenched the pavillion with woven [...]

Surau Sumber Gerak - The place of devotion, from where the source of movement comes. Locks are the distinctive feature of gerak silek Kumango.

Translation note: Silek means silat in the traditional language of Minangkabau, West Sumatera in Indonesia. Gerak means movement in Indonesian and Surau indicates a communal place of devotion e.g. the place to [...]

Tanah Abang, one of the centers of commerce in Indonesia’s capital city is known as the biggest garment market in Indonesia and perhaps in Southeast Asia.
Aside from being a large textile market, Tanah Abang has also been known for a long time as a place that produced a lot of Silat champions (jago-jago). One of [...]

The two people move backwards and forwards in an orderly manner. There arms extending and folding in turn. Suddenly one of the players reverses direction throwing his adversary and immediately raucus laughter fills the room.
The above scenario describes the training environment at the Paguron (School) of Maenpo Cikalong Pancerbumi, that happens each Friday night on [...]

Salam Pencak Silat,
As decided at the meeting with PESAKA as The Organizing Committee Pencak Silat World Championship 2007 on 13 July 2007 in PERSILAT office, Jakarta, we hereby officially confirm that Pencak Silat World Championship 2007 will be held on 20 – 25 October 2007 in Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia.

Born From the Philosophy of Sufi Tradition
Part One of a Two Series of Articles

The grand white building stands imposing on top of the hill. Its huge pillars tower 4 meters high supporting the terrace where pilgrims may rest, for this building is a mausoleum.
To arrive at the location, pilgrims need to endure the hardship [...]

Maenpo Kari-Cikaret
Striking Skills that Kill
Kari Cikaret doesn’t acknowledge within its method the practice of hitting hard objects.
Blam! An open palm slap to the cheek resonates clearly. One can tell from the sound that it was a heavy slap and it would’ve hurt. It’s not surprising therefore, that the recipient of the strike makes desperate and [...]