Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. There are hundreds of different styles ( aliran) and schools ( perguruan) but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, weaponry, or some combination thereof. It is traditionally practised in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, portions of the Philippines, southern part of Thailand and central part of Vietnam. Silat is a collective word for a class of indigenous martial arts from the geo-cultural area of Southeast Asia, more precisely in the Indonesian Archipelago, a region known locally as Nusantara. A demonstration of the Minangkabau style of silat.
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