![]() ![]() During the colonial era and the Indonesian revolution silat fighters, known by such terms as satria, pendekar, jago, or jawara, were involved in sporadic acts of violent resistance to European authority and in the guerrilla warfare, pemuda movements and military campaigns that led to the eventual expulsion of the Dutch colonial forces. Training in the martial arts was, and often still is, regarded as requisite bekal or provisions for the journey through life. Malay/Indonesian martial arts have for centuries enjoyed significance in the indigenous educational realm particularly, but not exclusively, for men. ![]() ![]() The dunia persilatan or "silat world" of post-colonial Southeast Asia mirrors the diffusion of Malay language and extends like a net transcending contemporary national boundaries and drawing together the Indonesian Republic, Malaysia, Singapore, Southern Thailand, Brunei, and the Malay-speaking isles of the Southern Philippines. The term silat, however, does not seem to have been used in significant measure before the 20th century as it does not appear in pre-print age literary works. Silat is the most common generic term for martial arts in the modern Malay speaking world. Malay/Indonesian martial arts, and, at times, martial arts in general, are most commonly referred to as silat, pencak silat, ilmu bela diri (national and international) pencak, (West Java), sile, silek (Sumatra), ngelmu digdaya (Java) and bersilat (Malaysia). ![]()
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