期刊名称：Researchers World - Journal of Arts Science & Commerce
印刷版ISSN：2229-4686
电子版ISSN：2229-4686
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：3
页码：70-78
出版社：Educational Research Multimedia & Publication
摘要：Wayang kulit (leather puppet) is a universal art work and is owned by different countries. In Indonesia, leather puppet has significant roles in Javanese community life. Among such roles is that it is perfomed in ritual purposes. There are some ritual functions performed by Javanese people. With descriptive qualitative method, it was known that presently only two types of leather puppet exist. The first type is performed in such types of ruwatan as ruwatan sukerta. The second type is performed in such purifying rituals as the bersih desa (village purification) ritual. In general, the rituals remain consistent and only little modification is made in order to be more practical
