ASEAN Panji Festival 2023 is an annual event that aims to invite ASEAN countries to celebrate Panji under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) and the East Java Provincial Government. Recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage in the official Memory of the World-UNESCO website, the story of Panji itself originates from East Java, Indonesia, and has become one of the classic epics in Javanese Literature that is very well known in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
The Panji story itself originated in East Java, Indonesia and has become one of the Panji stories containing Javanese folklore of the classical period during the Kadiri Kingdom and popular during the Majapahit Kingdom. The temples in Blitar hold a wealth of Panji depicted on their reliefs. The largest collection of Panji stories can be found in Palah (Penataran) Temple such as Panji Inu Kertapati, Bubhuksah and Gagang Aking, Sang Satyawan, and others.
The uniqueness of this festival lies in the collaborative performance of Panji stories performed by each country. Each country has its own interpretation of the Panji story and these interpretations are brought together in the performing arts. The festival also featured various traditional art performances centred on the story of Panji (Inao), a romantic epic among ASEAN countries.
De Karanganjar as one of the places to preserve Panji culture in Indonesia, on 17 October 2023 was visited by 200 participants and officials of the 2023 Panji Nusantara Festival consisting of Panji activists, researchers and artists from 9 ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos.
Reporting from the Facebook account of De Karanganjar Koffieplantage CEO, Wima Brahmantya, the arrival of the 2023 ASEAN Panji Festival participants to De Karanganjar was initially just for lunch, taking into account the location close to Palah Temple (Penataran). Then, the visit session continued with a sharing by the CEO of De Karanganjar Koffieplantage who conveyed information about the existence of the "Panji Room" in Noegroho Museum and the Panji Festival event for elementary and high school students which was held in 2013-2015 under the auspices of the Blitar Arts Council.
At the end of the visit, all participants of the ASEAN Panji Festival and other invitees were amazed and entertained by the Panji dance performed by the collaboration of Talun High School students and other artists, under the direction of Ki Kholam Shiharta.
Thus it can be interpreted that the 2023 ASEAN Panji Festival is not just an ordinary cultural event. It is a celebration of a shared cultural heritage that strengthens the brotherhood between countries in ASEAN.
De Karanganjar Koffieplantage continues to be a welcoming destination for anyone interested in learning about Panji Stories and the Panji Trail that still exists today. In addition to the "Panji Room", you can also see a wide collection of well-preserved ancestral krises at De Karanganjar Koffieplantage. Noegroho Museum.
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