Arts and Culture
Yogyakarta has strong communities in:
- Silver work,
- Traditional leather puppetry used for shadow plays (wayang kulit),
- Contemporary puppetry and theatre, for example Papermoon Puppet Theatre
- Making batik dyed fabric.
- Gamelan music, including the unique style Gamelan Yogyakarta, which developed in the courts.
- Visual artists including Taring Padi community in Bantul, that produces art prints using a technique called
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