AbstractThe purpose af the research is to reveal the structures and the forms ofPandqwa Lima figures, namely Pnntadetpa, Werkudara, Hariuna,Nangkula, and Sadewa. Purwa shadow puppet is the Javanese profilevisualizations which re/lect certain dispositions and characters. The forms ofthose five figures are very distinctive and have been cansidered as a fixed rule(pakem) in the order of Javanese putva shadow puppet inakings. Thus it isinteresting to study whether the forms of the .figures in the Jqvanese purwashadow puppet have structures and meanings. The questions are whether eachpurwq shadow puppet such as Pandawa Lima also has certain structures, how thestructures are, and how the meanings of these figures in the context of Javaneseculture are. To reveal the structures snd elucidate the rneanings, in-depthresearch was executed by compiling data through, atnor'g oihers, participatoryobservation, in-depth interyiew, content analysis, and literary study. This reseqrchused the anthropological structural-interpretative analysis. The results of theresearch show that the forms of Pandawa Lima putwq shadotr puppet is a shapedstructure with distinctive forms, which are in contrast with the form structures ofthose of giant dispositions. The finding,s show that dis;tinct J'acial structures asfound in Pandawa Lima are Javanese character transformations which reflect thecharacters of lodght. These structures are in contrast with the forms of purwashadow puppet depicting giant characters which reflect negative characters or theopposite of positive characters. Therefore, the profiles of Pandawa purwa shadowpuppets are meaningful visual structures, since they are the manifestation ofJavanese characters which reJlects the souls, characters, and good values whichshould be established as Javanese society's life guidance.