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and avoid the prohibitions. In that sense,
anyone of the PS practitioners should have
good character, continuously improve quality
and always hope to be a good citizen that
upholds principles ‘to be beneficial to others’.
As warga ‘citizens’, pendekar ‘fighters’
should obey principle of loyal, sincere,
independent and consequent to norm and
regulation, manners, and being supportive to
the society. Any fighter needs to participate
actively in effort to develop and create social
welfare based on togetherness, solidarity,
social responsibility and responsibility to God;
Tanggap. Silat fighters are demanded to be
sensitive, care, anticipative, proactive, and
well-prepared against any change and
development. In that sense, any fighter should
be aware and increase his/her quality and
overall tendency;
Tangguh. Silat fighters should be preserving
and having willingness to develop his/her own
capability in facing and ready to challenge
turbulences. He/she needs to be able to deal
with obstacle, disturbance, and threat to reach
noble goal based on true fighter’s principles;
Tanggon. Silat fighters should have
willingness to establish justice, honesty, truth,
being firm, consistent and consequent.
Fighters need to be able to maintain
principles, having self-respect and good
personality, deep consideration both in
thinking and behaving, having a high
discipline, awareness and always stay resistant
against temptation of ins and outs of
him/herself;
Trengginas. Silat fighters are demanded to
have energetic, active, creative, invocative
attitude, thinking to the future and hard
working. He/she should pursue advance useful
for themselves and society and can pass
challenge based on willingness to be
responsible over the development in the
society.
Through the self-culture of pencak silat, humans
expected to have five characteristics of good human
beings in order to obtain salvation in life. Salvation
is obtained by a loyal citizen attitude five hearts
terate. Harsono (2003), describes five characteristics
are (1) The virtuous, that a virtuous know right and
wrong as well as piety to God. Someone that has
possess noble manners also reflected the attitude of
being willing to sacrifice the interests of the people
and always try to give precedence to the interests of
the community, nation, and State rather than private
interest or group, (2) The brave and not afraid to die,
that is the courage which is based on the truth will
bear a force. The attitude of adigang, adigung,
adiguna showcasing the strength and pride for a less
noble purposes will be crushed by the truth and
justice. Humans PSHT must the underlying struggle
of her life armor spirit, must dare to face the
challenges of life with a vengeance and trying to
ward off the challenge with full spirit, (3) Select the
yield attitude, that is the attitude of dare to yield
likely to be closer to humble, not arrogant, and
understand the existence of others. Human
prosecuted wherever possible be wise and can sort
out carefully, where that principle and which are not
the principle then always try to put a human on
human proportions, (4) Simple, it means that being
and acting with a value of earthy, natural, not
contrived and not force myself (ngangsa). The
character of this obligatory employee owned PSHT
in order to attain inner happiness, (5) memayu
hayuning bawana (maintain safety and peace of the
world), I mean that human should always bring
peace and benefit for the environment. Human
should always emit the rays of love; bring calmness,
serenity and well-being for the people around him.
On a deeper level again, the attitude of
understanding the existence of others this will foster
awareness of the environment and understand the
universe. In fact, this awareness will bring someone
toward tranquil life.
4 CONCLUSIONS
Pencak silat has four elements the unity, it is mental
spiritual, self-defense, arts, and sports. Culture of
pencak silat has been developed hereditary so
achieving its present form. The study concluded that
the understanding of the martial arts is very spacious
and has a clear function; such is the martial arts as a
vehicle for sport, media for self-defense, as the
realization of the view of spirituality, as
performances or art, and as a means to defend the
nation. The epistemology in the Javanese philosophy
is about a spiritual and intuitive quest called ngelmu
'science'. It refers to knowledge embodiment either
mystical or spiritual, nor intellectual, and is more
likely an intuitive intelligence. Pencak silat is a self-
reflecting attitude to the Javanese knowledge
embodiment for it teaches the inner power
(kanuragan) achievable through running specific
rituals such as performing meditation, fasting and
giving up offerings (sesajen). The process takes
place from physical to spiritual forging. The laku
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