Soepinto Basoeki


Soepinto Basoeki known as Trombol is both a live performance artist and author of 18 books exploring the development of both children and folk theatre. Trombol wrote many plays for secondary and high schools theatre groups in East Java and has introduced free of non-scripted plays by way of improvisation in modern youth theatre. Trombol is also an active actor in Traditional Performing Art – Ludruk in East Java and represents Eastern Javanese Performing Art by giving talks and seminars in many regions of Indonesia.

Trombol graduated in Cultural Studies at IKIP University Malang and MA graduate in Education at UMHAKA Jakarta, Indonesia. Trombol is currently working as a government educational officer for the district of Probolinggo.