JAKARTA (ANN): Pencak silat, a traditional Indonesian martial art married with dance that has found a wider audience in film in the past few years, was recognised on Thursday (Dec 12) as a piece of intangible world heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
Unesco's inter-ministerial General Assembly announced the inscription of pencak silat onto its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at its meeting in Bogota, Colombia, said Kamapradipta Isnomo, an Indonesian Foreign Ministry official.