Tapak Suci Putra Muhammadiyah PPTQM 2021

Tapak Suci Putera Muhammadiyah (), shortened as Tapak Suci, is an autonomous

pencak silat Pencak silat (; in Western writings sometimes spelled "pentjak silat" or phonetically as "penchak silat") is a class of related Indonesian martial arts. In neighbouring countries, the term usually refers to professional competitive silat. It ...

martial arts organization of

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, the modernist, second largest Muslim organization in

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. Tapak Suci is one of the ten 'historic schools' of IPSI (''Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia'', or Pencak Silat Association of Indonesia), the leading organization of

in Indonesia. The silat school was founded and made an official part of Muhammadiyah on July 31, 1963 in

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and has since spread nationwide within the organization. The silat masters and practitioners in Muhammadiyah were concerned about the threatening situation confronting their members at that time, especially from various mass organizations that belonged to the

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(PKI). Tapak Suci trains its members in physical silat techniques and breathing exercises. The school, however, does not teach body invulnerability (''ilmu kebal'', which is taught by some more traditional silat schools), as it opposes

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s and considers them ''

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''. As an autonomously managed part of Muhammadiyah, the martial arts school is open to membership not only of Muslims but to anyone interested, either in Indonesia or overseas chapters.

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{{reflist Muhammadiyah Silat Indonesian martial arts organization

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