Abstract
The establishment of a football association in the 1930s in Indonesia marked the dominant Anglo/Euro-American control of the global diffusion of sport mingled with the imperial vision of those states to promote western colonialism’s social mores as part of a mission to ‘civilize’ people in other lands. These phenomena justify a model of spatial diffusion of sports that spread from the West as the centre (core) to colonised nations as periphery. On the other hand, the diffusion of martial arts in Indonesia passed through other routes, and established several axes driven by enculturation, so a strand of influence of elements of Chinese martial arts emerged in a certain genre of Indonesia’s martial art–pencak silat. However the intrinsic beauty of this precious cultural heritage has been lost, with the development of a focus on sport and the prowess of the ‘body as machine’, and on gaining gold medals and financial rewards.
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