KUALA LUMPUR: The variety of techniques in silat clearly piqued the interest of a Kedah-born Indian youth to venture into this heritage martial art that is more synonymous with the Malays. According ...

Pencak silat will feature for the first time in the Asian Games when they come to Indonesia in 2018. Officials then want to take it to the Olympics, and hope it could one day be recognized by UNESCO.

Some fight with machetes three-feet long, others are armed with daggers curved like the claws of big cats, while other combatants rely on only their minds. This is the world of "pencak silat", or ...