Gending Sriwijaya

Gending Srivijaya

The gilded costume of South Sumatran Gending Sriwijaya dance invoked the splendor of Srivijaya empire.
Native name	Gending Sriwijaya
Genre	Traditional dance
Instrument(s)	Gamelan, Gong
Inventor	Palembangese
Origin	Indonesia

Gending Sriwijaya is the name of the traditional performance whether it is a song, music, as well as dance that originated from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Both of the song and the dance was created to describes the splendor, cultural refinement, glory and the grandeur of Srivijaya empire that once succeed on unifying the western parts of Indonesian archipelago and Malay world generally.^[1]