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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 10328190, member: 2844"]A bit of the background of Wayang Revolusi:Wayang plays are performed for all social strata, but with differences in quality of the puppets, etc.There were itinerant dalangs, puppeteers, who travelled from village to village with their puppet sets. It was often the only entertainment villagers had, so dalangs were always welcomed with open arms.This system was used by the revolutionaries of what came to be the Indonesian War of Independence, to 'sell' their fight to people in rural areas.The Independence movement was started by young people, many of whom had studied at universities in the Netherlands, and among them part-European young people. They had very little contact with Javanese villagers.The villagers had just survived a devastating Japanese occupation and the resulting abject poverty and famine, and just wanted to grow new crops and build their lives again. Many of them were not interested in another war, although others wanted to rid the country of the Dutch colonisers.Another complication in rallying support was that some of the prominent freedom fighters, like the later president Sukarno, had collaborated with the hated Japanese.But a good way to reach the hearts of the country people was to present the revolution in a way they enjoyed, through Wayang theatre. And Wayang Revolusi was born.[/QUOTE]