Pencak silat or silat is a traditional martial art originating from the Malay Archipelago. This martial art is widely known in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore, southern Philippines, and southern Thailand in accordance with the spread of various ethnic groups of the archipelago.
Thanks to the role of coaches from Indonesia, now Vietnam has also had a tough fighters. Mother of Pencak Silat Indonesia (IPSI) is the Indonesian Pencak Silat Association (IPSI). The organization that embraces pencak silat federations in different countries is the Pencak Silat Between Nations (Persilat), formed by Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.
Pencak Silat is a martial sport that requires a lot of concentration. [1] There are influences of Chinese culture, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam in martial arts. [1] Usually every region in Indonesia has a typical martial arts flow. For example, the area of West Java is famous for the flow of Cimande and Cikalong, in Central Java there is a flow of Merpati Putih and in East Java there is a flow of Self-Shield. [1]
Every four years in Indonesia there is a national level martial arts match in the National Sports Week. Pencak Silat also competed in the SEA Games since 1987. Outside Indonesia there are also many fans of pencak silat such as in Australia, Netherlands, Germany, and America. [1]
At the national level, sports through games and sports of pencak silat become one of the means of unifying the archipelago, even to scent the name of the nation, and become the identity of the nation. [2] Sport of martial arts has been competed on an international scale. [2] In Indonesia there are many streams in pencak silat, with many of these streams show the cultural richness of society in Indonesia with the values that are in it 