Forest, Field and Sea: Folklife in Indonesia
odd: label: Introduction
content: Indonesia is the fifth most populous country in the world with a population of over 180 million, a land of enormous cultural diversity with 300 distinct ethnic groups living on more than 1,000 islands distributed across 3,000 miles of ocean. How could the Festival approach such a complex nation and bring it to the National Mall?

Examples of cultural adaptations by people from three Indonesian provinces to vastly different environments were selected to provide an introduction to Indonesia's great diversity - Kenyah and Modang people living in the lowland and upland forests of East Kalimantan, Bugis and Makassarese maritime people living in coastal South Sulawesi, and rural Javanese and Madurese agriculturalists living in coastal and inland East Java. These communities displayed some of the indigenous skills and traditional knowledge that have developed in environments outside the urban centers and fertile river valleys of the Indonesian heartland. Together, these rich traditions are the expression of a civilization whose cultural sources - local, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic - are as complex as any on earth.

Kenyah and Modang people of Kalimantan showed visitors how they have made life possible and meaningful in the rainforest. Festival-goers could witness their careful use of indigenous plants for medicine, trees for vernacular longhouses, and other forest products for aesthetic and religious practices. Buginese and Makassarese boatbuilders, seafarers, cooks, and silk makers demonstrated skills they use to live with and from the sea - the economic trade and natural bounty it has historically provided. And from East Java came village agriculturalists, rice farmers of that island's rich soil who have developed an intricate fabric of social, material, and performance arts. Performers from four artistic traditions came from East Java to the Festival, presenting peasant batik from Tuban on the north coast, which uses hand-woven cotton; masked dance-drama of Madura, based on stories from the Indian epics, Mahabharata and Ramayana; gandrung social dance of Banyuwangi; and the music and dance performance known as reyog from the region of Ponorogo on the western side of the Province.

Richard Kennedy was Curator of the program, with Uaporn Ang Robinson and Sal Murgiyanto as Program Coordinators and Katrinka Ebbe as Assistant Program Coordinator.

Forest, Field and Sea: Folklife in Indonesia was part of the Festival of Indonesia 1990-1991 and was made possible with the support of Yayasan Nusantara Jaya, Garuda Indonesia Airlines, and American President Lines.
label: Fieldworkers
content: Rachel Cooper, Zailani Idris, Dewi Indrawati, Dloyana Kusumah, Sardono W. Kusumo, Halilintar Latief, Deddy Luthan, A.M. Munardi, Philip Yampolsky
label: Presenters
content: Rachel Cooper, Virginia Gorlinsky, Mukhlis, Darmawan M. Rahmar, Pamela Rogers-Aguiniga, Patti Seery, Herwasono Soedjito, S. Suprapto, Philip Yampolsky, Tinuk Yampolsky
label: Participants
content: East Kalimantan

H. Zailani Idris, Regional Coordinator, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Kenyah

Pangun Jalung, dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Peding Ajang, dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Buaq Aring, dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ngang Bilung, dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Peluhat Saring, dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Pelajam Udou, dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Lawai Jalung, musician, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Pelenjau Ala, lamin builder, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ajan Ding, lamin builder, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Dau Kirung, beadworker, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Alina Ubang, weaver, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Agang Merang, blacksmith, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Modang

Lehong Bujai, musician, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Jiu Ping Lei, musician, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Djeng Hong, hudok dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Y. Bayau Lung, hudok dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Yonas Wang Beng, hudok carver, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Bit Beng, hudok dancer, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

South Sulawesi

Halilintar Lathief, Regional Coordinator, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Hamsinah Bado, dancer, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Hasnah Gassing, dancer, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Daeng Gassing, musician, dancer, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Mile Ngalle, musician, dancer, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Juma, musician, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Jamaluddin, musician, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Serang Dakko, musician, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Ismail Madung, musician, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

H. Damang, boat builder, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

H. Muhammad Tahir, 1943-, boat builder, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Martawang La Pucu, weaver, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Roslina Suaib, foodways, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

East Java

A.M. Munardi, Regional Coordinator, East Java, Indonesia

East Java -- , --  Madura

Hosnan P. Atromu, dancer, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Fauzi, dancer, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Masruna, dancer, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Merto, dancer, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

"Supakra" Sudjibta, dancer, mask carver, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Marzuki, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

A.S. Marzuki, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Muhni, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Sahabuddin, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Sutayyib, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Sutipno, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Saleh, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Sunarwi, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Suraji, musician, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Riskijah, foodways, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

Hadiya, traditional medicine, Madura, East Java, Indonesia

East Java -- , --  Banyuwangi

Astani, dancer, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Supinah, dancer, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Adenan, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Praminto Adi, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Basuki, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Sahuni, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Sukidi, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Sanali, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

Sumitro Hadi, musician, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia

East Java -- , --  Ponorogo

Buwono,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Harjokemun al Moloq,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Heri Suprayitno,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Margono,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Marwan,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Nardi,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Saleh,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Shodiq,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Subroto,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Sunardi,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Suparman,  -- reog --  performer, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Kusnan, 1950-, gamelan maker, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

Misri, gamelan maker, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia

East Java -- , --  Tuban

Rukaiyah, batik dyer, Tuban, East Java, Indonesia

Tarsi, batik dyer, Tuban, East Java, Indonesia
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1991 Festival of American Folklife
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.1991, Series 3
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