Metruk: menyuarakan karakter orang Jawa

Abstract

In the shadow play tradition, dalang often said with term of metruk for explain the mayang, both in performance or the other time. This problem is interest bacause dalang choose the Petruk as himself. In fact Cangik also used too. But dalang never expression mayang with nyangik term.
Metruk is exactly in the Javanese culture especially in the pedalangan. It is very relevance with three foundations of Javanese characterstic: etiquet (anoraga, sabar, longgar, etc.), prestice (perwira, dumawa, tanggon, etc.) and responsibility (wasis, wegig, kendel, kumandel, etc.).