Pencak Silat, a traditional martial art known to the world

This martial arts original cultural heritage of our ancestors. Product results if the minds of human beings insan Indonesia that has a characteristic attached to each tribe from Sabang to Merauke. Unfortunately, the echo is less audible in his own country.

Pencak Silat, martial arts from home country itself, can not be denied and has been known almost everyone. But rarely knows how Pencak Silat has so penetrated the struggle of Indonesia to achieve its independence. Long before independence was achieved.

In the Dutch colonial era, the heroic stories of the fighters who were also the leaders of the struggle in their original land, circulated quite a lot. Pencak Silat is studied and used well by the royal courtiers, the sultanate, and the fighters against colonialism.

We certainly remember clearly the story of Si Pitung, and other martial arts figures in those days, who are not just fairy tales but are real world figures. Pencak Silat when it is taught in college in secret and hereditary. If caught Netherlands, the life of the stakes.

The fears of the enemy are well-founded, as almost all of the nation's freedom fighters in those days were also martial arts warriors. Tengku Cik in Tiro, Imam Bonjol, Fatahillah, Pangeran Diponegoro, are some of the names among hundreds of warriors of martial arts as well as nation's fighters.

Towards Indonesia's independence, the growth of silat schools that move in secret becomes precisely the embryo of this martial arts extension from Sabang to Merauke.

Science kanuragan then favored not only by the champions and strong-muscle people in the villages and remote, but also studied by the movement figures, political organizations, until scouting.

Silat Pencak Silat penetrates and becomes fertilizer for anti-colonial forces throughout the archipelago. Added to the Dutch habit of throwing paratokoh fighters into remote areas of the country, it also makes Pencak Silat spread to the archipelago. Silat college grows like a mushroom in the rainy season.

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