MANUSKRIP CERITA PANJI
2017
Pengiktirafan bersama Cambodia, Indonesia, Netherlands dan United Kingdom
Kisah Panji adalah cerita dari Abad ke-13 dari kisah Putera Paji, pahlawan Jawa yang melalui laluan berliku dalam mencari Putri Candra Kirana yang dicintainya, dan berbagai macam penyamaran dan pelbagai nama, sebelum mereka bersatu. Dengan kewujudan cerita Panji, ianya merupakan penandaan perkembangan kesasteraan Jawa yang tidak lagi dibayangi oleh epik India yang hebat, iaitu Ramayana dan Mahabharata yang terkenal di Jawa dari abad ke-12. Semasa zaman empayar Majapahit (abad ke-14 hingga ke-15), cerita-cerita Panji menjadi sangat popular, disebarkan oleh pedagang laut serta menjadi literatur paling popular di Asia Tenggara pada abad ke-17 hingga ke-18, dari Jawa ke Bali, dunia Melayu, Thailand, Myanmar, Kemboja dan mungkin Filipina. Pengaruhnya diterangkan oleh Adrian Vickers sebagai "tamadun Panji di Asia Tenggara." Tradisi kesusasteraan dan budaya yang lebih luas dari Panji cerita menyebar di luar pulau Jawa ke Asia Tenggara, dan tetap menjadi sastera dan budaya serantau yang unik. Pencalonan Manuskrip Cerita Panji adalah usaha bersama Cambodia, Indonesia, the Netherlands dan United Kingdom.
PANJI TALES MANUSCRIPTS
2017
Joint nomination with Cambodia, Indonesia, Netherlands and United Kingdom
The Panji tales are stories from the 13th century telling the many adventures of the Prince Paji, a Javanese hero searching for his beloved Princess Candra Kirana, and his undertaken in various disguises and with a range of different names, before the lovers are reunited. They mark the development of a Javanese literature no longer overshadowed by the great Indian epics the Ramayana and Mahabharata which were known in Java from the 12th century. During the Majapahit empire (14th-15th centuries), the Panji stories became extremely popular, spread by sea merchants, became one of the most popular literatures in Southeast Asia during the 17th-18th centuries, from Java to Bali, the Malay world, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and probably the Philipines. Its influence was described by Adrian Vickers as “a Panji civilization in Southeast Asia.”. The literary traditions and wider culture of the Panji Tales spread beyond the island of Java to South East Asia, and was and remains a unique regional literary and cultural treasure.
