About Indonesian Literature and their ways of life

1. INDONESIAN
LITERATURE
REPORTERS; HEPPOG, JULIVER AND TABBAY,
PRECIOUS

2. INTRODUCTION TO INDONESIA
location
• Southeast Asian Archipelago between
the Indian ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

3. • Indonesia has an estimated 17,508 islands but only 6,000 islands are
inhabited.

4. INTRODUCTION TO INDONESIA
Capital
• Jakarta
Population
• Indonesia is the 4th largest country
in the world by population with over
240 million people.
Religion
• Muslim

5. INTRODUCTION TO INDONESIA
PEOPLE

6. INDONESIAN LITERATURE
1.Pujangga Lama: the `literates of the olden times`
Pujangga Lama or `the old poets` was written
before the 20th century, a lively oral tradition Malay-Language
Literature.
CHARACTERISTIC
• It is static
• The main themes of the essay in the form of poetry or prose
with the following pattern; fantasy, provides education,
religious or belief.

7. TRADITIONAL FORMS
• 1. SYAIR
• Is a form of traditional Malay poetry that made up of four line
stanzas or quatrains.
• Mostly narrative poem, didactive poem, or a poem used to
convey ideas on religion or philosophy, or even one to describe
historical event.
ELEMENTS
• Stanzaic, written I any number of quatrains.
• Mono-rhyme. (aaaa, bbbb, cccc)
• Used to communicate romantic adventures, local conflicts,
allegories and religious instructions.

9. 2. PANTUM
• It is an ancient poetry that has four stanza rhymes abab in its
verse.
• The most common theme is love.

11. • 3. Gurindam or Quridam
• Is a type of irregular verse forms of traditional Malay poetry.
• Each pair of lines (stanza) provides complete ideas within the
pair and has the same rhyme in its end.
• The first line is known as syarat (protasis) which states a
condition and the second line is known as jawab (apodosis)
which provides the answer.

13. 4. BABAD
• Babads as genres belong to the traditional literature. A
characteristics of this kind of literature is that is
written in medical form and is governed by set of
strict conventions. In traditional Javanese society,
prose (gancaran) was not considered to the belles
letters but that was considered to be merely sets of
note aide-memoires.

14. Example of Babad
• The Malay Annals (Malay;
Sejarah Melayu, Jawi) originally
titled Sulalatus Salatin
(Genealogy of Kings) 1)is a
literary work that gives a
romanticized history of the
origin, evolution and demises
of the great Malay maritime
empire, the Malaca Sultanate.
2)the work, which was
composed sometime between
the 15th and 16th centuries, is
considered one of the finest
literary and historical works in

15. INDONESIAN FOLKTALE/PROVERB