Although fighting women have been part of traditional performance, they have not been dominant and have mainly functioned to acknowledge the existence of female heroes in both the historical and mythical past. At a glance this sinetron is like a Javanese traditional performance, kethoprak, performed on television. Mak Lampir is helped by a group of powerful men and women willing to fight and so is Sembara. Her efforts are opposed by Sembara, a sacred hero. This sinetron basically tells a story of an evil and powerful witch woman, Mak Lampir, who attempts to spread evil among human beings. This sinetron presents to its audience an imaginary world set in a past time in Java where all people were able to fight and all problems were solved through fighting. Misteri Gunung Merapi falls into the action genre.This article focuses on Misteri Gunung Merapi, a popular Indonesian sinetron. I want to explore the question of what happens when the action heroine is constructed in a non-Western culture. Most critics of female action heroes focus on the representation of female bodies and female power in Western popular culture. Their image contradicts normative codes of femininity and poses a challenge to women's conventional social roles, so it is argued. These characters take up space that is usually occupied by male heroes. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacificįeminist scholars have been drawn to analyse the construction of female action heroes in film and on television.
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