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TAMAN ISMAIL MARZUKI
 Taman
Ismail Marzuki is Jakarta's showcase in cultural performances.
As it is well known Java island including west Java
which is called Sunda had strongly influenced
by the Hindu tradition in the past. The Hindu tradition,
especially initiated by the palaces, were various entertainments
developed from local existing dance, drama, and musics
with theme of Hindu tradition from India. Ancient Hindu
writers also choreographed local theme into
the theme of a performances. That is why today both
in Jakarta and Bali we can watch a drama of wayang puppet
shows with a theme both taken from India epic of Ramayana
or Mahabharata or local kings in Java or Bali. The artists
both in Java and Bali seemed to have been free in expressing
their creativities and as an art improvisations, taking many
events to be included in the chain of their playing.
Although it is a traditional performance a modern and
actual issues are often appointed into their theme, also
it is not into the main theme, or as just for satires.
Taman Ismail Marzuki organizes almost every night performances
from Balinese dances, poetry readings or declamations,
traditional musics or gamelan and modern film festivals.
The building is located at Jalan Cikini Raya, phone
021 315 4067. Normally their programs are published by
the Jakarta Post daily news. Although some groups or small number
of people do not like art and consider art is taboo, but the heart
of Indonesian people, especially Java could not be avoided form their
very basic feeling of life that art can not be separated with all aspect
of life which is proved by technologically advanced countries that art
has been playing a great role in making their creation win over all
their competitors. Say in all technological productions, foolish people that consider art is no use
will be always under the defeat.
A small number of people do not like art, they consider art is taboo and do not make human being
able to enter the sorga. If we ask them for sure they do not know what is sorga. May be their attitude
was born by the influence of opinion that having relation with their religion that they could not
see weather it is constructive or destructive. As long as
history reveals life without art is barren, and make the nature drained out
of fertilizer and become barren like desert.
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