Hmm I think I mentioned this before, but his whole romantic story about finding a Silat teacher in Holland still sounds a bit dubious. Still no one heard of his teachers (Guru Ma Prem) lineage in Silat in Holland and Holland is a small place where most good silat teachers are and were known. My teacher and his closest friends know just about anyone in Silat circles in Holland, especially in the past. The Dutch-Indonesian world in Holland is a very small and intimate world. Also he changed his story regarding finding his teacher (first he saw an unknown person on a corner dressed in white, point to a house where the teacher supposedly lived, now he just found her address on a flyer which in fact sounds a lot more believable). He is referring to an area in Rotterdam (Noordsingel) which supposedly was a 'red-light' district, which it wasn't (I live in Rotterdam for over 25 years). Probably he tries to over-romanticize the story, he does have some good skills definitely, but it does sound a bit over the top. guru Ma was a real figure, undoubtedly with skills but in Holland we can only link her directly to Ayurveda en Esotericism so far. In my personal opinion, Benitez trained with several martial arts teachers for a while and with that created his own style 'Satria Arts', which is ok to me.
If all of these stories are in fact true, i'm curious about some of the senior students having trained there in Rotterdam (which he mentioned in the movie), to see if we can find more of this 'old silat' around. I've been training traditional silat (with a modern touch) for quite some years so it would be really cool to find some more knowledge in my own backyard
But enough about that, i think if you look at the dutch connection there seems to be a link with Mysticism so that might explain his way of explaining the 'Internal'. And obviously Silat is often linked to Spiritualism in Indonesia.