Ondel-ondel

Ondel-ondel is the giant "human puppet", which consist of male puppet and female puppet. It also mentioned as icon of Betawi Society. It often used on cultural festivals and Jakarta anniversary festivals. Because of this puppet is very big, the process to make it needs patience and good observation. First step is preparing the puppet's skeleton, which is made from 400 x 1,5 cm bamboo twigs. Second, fill the bucket with fiber so that this puppet are solid. This process takes one until two days. And last is make the mask puppet, plaster them and color them. For the male puppet use black or red color and for female puppet use the white color.Use goat skin to make the moustache, so it looks real. In early 1970, people still use Ondel-ondel show in family celebrationsuch in boy circumcised and wedding. However, now people option for modern event like dangdutan and movie screening to celebrate importance ceremonies. Ondel-ondel became rarely to showed in celebrate, it only used in certain celebrates.