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Folk games

Category explanation

Games based on particular values, practiced continuously by a community and passed to the next generation for recreation.

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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES

Cultural works and practices

These examples help explain the category; they do not limit what cultural forms may be recorded.

Trimurti Village, Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta (documented locality); congklak is known throughout Indonesia.

Dakon (Congklak)

Bantul’s cultural directory classifies it as a folk game played with seeds and a holed board; the law also names congklak as an example.

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Special Region of Yogyakarta.

Gobak Sodor (Galah Asin)

The Yogyakarta culture department describes a team game of crossing and guarding lines and identifies it as a traditional game; the law also lists gobak sodor.

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