Composite

Weapons in this category may be used with equal facility for a wide variety of actions. One such is the cabang an ancient Indonesian weapon of the truncheon type. It is made ofiron and has double tines fastened at the juncture of shaft and handle.

The pencak-silat exponent is never, in fact, "empty-handed", for almost any object within his reach such as a chair, a bottle, or a stone, may become a weapon of expediency in an emergency.