Indonesia’s Cultural Heritages Preservation: Knowing Wayang More Deeply

Culture is an invaluable heritage of our ancestors. Culture is also a national identity that makes us have different characteristics from other countries. One of Indonesia’s cultural heritage that is starting to fade and must be preserved is wayang. As the next generation, we are obliged to introduce wayang to future generations and also to the international community. In this modern era, one effective way is to create wayang recognition technology. In this paper, we take this opportunity as an effort to help preserve Indonesian culture which will be applied with technology. A deep learning-based model has been developed to help us to get to know wayang more deeply starting from its type, area of origin, description, and other information by using the pictures of wayang and then classifying them. Results show that InceptionV3 performs in a much better way to classify wayang types.