JAKARTA, Dec 24 ― This Christmas season, the fading art of shadow puppetry is being used to tell the story of the season.

In Indonesia, children are putting on a Javanese-style holiday puppet show.

But this is not traditional shadow puppetry where the performers sit behind a curtain and cast a shadow.

In this show, the colourful puppets are on stage seen along with their shadows.

In a nation where about nine per cent of the population is Christian, the puppet show is being used to teach children about its religious traditions. ― Reuters