LANGUAGE, HUMOR AND FOCUS AS MAIN KEYS IN WAYANG PRESERVATION

Abstract

Wayang is one of the Indonesian ancestor’s heritage and the nation's indigenous pride. However, as time goes on, Wayang is slowly being abandoned. This is due to various factors that make people uninterested. Some of those factors are the difficulty to understand the language that is being used, the low amount of humor, and the long duration of the play so the concentration or focus of people cannot keep up with it. So, the author aims to find the relation between language, humor, and concentration or focus on the Wayang show. Thus, finding a possible solution in hope to attract people or even the younger generation's interest to Wayang. The author used literature review as a method to gather data and a descriptive-qualitative research to analyze the data. Various data gathered and connected with each other, thus has proven that Wayang can be modified to suit the developing era better.