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 ...

Junior, Pre-Junior and Junior Pencak Silat team won a total of nine medals at the 14th Sub-Junior, Pre-Junior and Junior ...

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 ...

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 Victorian pencak silat championship returned to Melbourne with 64 athletes from 11 schools. More than just a competition, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students demonstrate their fighting skills with sticks during a training session in the ancient Indonesian martial art of "pencak ...

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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE – The 20th World Pencak Silat Championships and 5th World Junior Pencak Silat Championships, originally scheduled for Dec 27-31 at the OCBC Arena, have been cancelled, according to the sport ...

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Junior, Pre-Junior and Junior Pencak Silat team delivered an impressive performance at the 14th Sub-Junior, Pre-Junior and Junior National Pencak Silat Championship 2026, ...