
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.

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.
