Cerita rakyat

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'Cerita rakyat A form of folklore found in Indonesia. With probable origins in an oral culture where a range of stories of heroes associated with Wayang and other forms of theatre were transmitted outside of a written culture - they have been collected and utilised in the Indonesian education system, in small cheap books - usually tied in with a district or region of Indonesia. During the Suharto era - there were sections of the Indonesian Department of Education and Culture that researched and wrote reports on collected cerita rakyat

[edit] Further reading (In Indonesian)

• Soemanto, Bakdi (1992) Cerita Rakyat dari Yogyakarta Jakarta: Grasindo
• Soepanto, ed (1976) Ceritera Rakyat Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Yogyakarta: Proyek Penelitian dan Pencatatan Kebudayaan Daerah.