various elements of religious ceremonies, plays, dance, music with vocal or instrumental, and simple texts. The male and female main characters were both performed by female dancers. Other figures that appear in the story are comedians, gods, jinn, courtiers, and animals. "mak yong" performance is accompanied by musical instruments such as rebab, gendang, and tetawak In Indonesia, the "mak yong" was developed in Lingga, which was once the center of the Johor-Riau Sultanate. The difference with the "mak yong" performed in the Kelantan-Pattani region is that they usually does not use masks, as "mak yong" in Riau uses masks for some of the King's female characters, princesses, criminals, demons, and spirits. At the end of the last century, "mak yong" not only became a daily show, but also as performance for the sultan.