Perisai Diri a practice in Amsterdam, Hilversum, Maarssen, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, etc. In 1983, one of the Perisai Diri silat coach, Otto Soeharjono M.S., move the duty to London, England. He founded Kelatnas Indonesia Perisai Diri Commissariat United Kingdom and became a pioneer of PSF UK (Pencak Silat Federation of United Kingdom). Both Sudargo, one of the Pendekar of Perisai Diri who served as the Board of Development of Pencak Silat Sports PB IPSI, in 1996 commissioned by the government as Transportation Attache at the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. The country is known as the center of the world martial arts, he
Pencak Silat meaning "old silek", but others claim it traces to the freedom fighter Tuanku Nan Tuo after whom it was named. All the classical pencak silat weapons are used in silek but the most prominent Minang weapons are the "pedang" (sword), "tumbak" (spear), "karih" (dagger), "klewang" (longsword), "sabik" (sickle), "payung" (umbrella), "kurambik" (claw), and various types of knives. From Srivijaya, pencak silat quickly spread eastward into the Javanese Sailendra and Medang Kingdoms where the fighting arts developed in three geographical regions: West Java, Central Java, and East Java. Today Java is home to more styles of pencak silat than any other