Kuda Lumping in Java, Hobby Horse in Britain

AN exhibition called Mysterious Dolls, Old Prints featured childrens games in Indonesia during the 1900s, an era of Javanese-Dutch blending that produced a mixed cultural style. During this era, dolls for Dutch girls and toy soldier horses were imported from Holland. Earlier, however, our typical traditional games, such as bekelan, gobak sodor, and pathok lele turned out to have their equivalents in Europe. At that time, when children were not yet familiar with modern video games, their games were already universal in nature. Tempo reports.