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The years 1968–1978 represent a period of crucial challenges to the Indonesian theatre establishment, pioneering the way for crossover experimentation between modern, Western-style naturalistic theatre, which was promoted by the national acting academies, and indigenous performa…

In varying degrees since the 1980s, Indonesian directors have been shifting from producing marginalised kampungan theatre towards producing gedongan theatre. Kampungan theatre is politically and economically marginalised by the gedongan world, just as Mestizo and Indonesian-Chin…