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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  3rd February 2009, 07:57 AM | 
	
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  11th January 2009, 02:16 PM | 
	
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				 Indonesian wages, sorry OOT. 
 Ben, I don't know where or when you got these figures, but just FYI, the amount you wrote there is way beneath the minimum wages here. If currently someone is paying those wages, they should be...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  30th December 2008, 11:25 AM | 
	
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  23rd December 2008, 03:14 AM | 
	
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  22nd December 2008, 12:11 PM | 
	
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  22nd December 2008, 03:45 AM | 
	
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  17th December 2008, 05:48 AM | 
	
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				 an Mpu or not an Mpu 
 Lemmy, no real Mpu would call himself or herself an Mpu. So by saying that you would not call yourself an Mpu, it shows that you might be one!
 
 I really like what I have seen of your work, and as...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  17th December 2008, 05:44 AM | 
	
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				 tangguh kangguru dhapur mlumpat 
 Tangguh Khangguru dhapur mlumpat might be appropriate Pak Alan. Maybe it would have a winking kangaroo head instead of a tlale gajah.
 
 As this is only fantasy, I would have no problem in paying...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  14th December 2008, 02:25 AM | 
	
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				 My dream keris 
 I would want a Carita with 11 luks.
 
 It would be kelengan without pamor made in the Majapahit style. I would want it to be slender and gracefull and light but very sharp and very strong. The...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  22nd May 2008, 03:56 PM | 
	
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				 Not all apes are Hanuman 
 And not all demons are Rahwana.
 
 I have been meaning to say this since reading the togogan thread a few weeks back. Not all apes are Hanuman, and in Bali, Sugriwa and Subali (both red and kings),...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  23rd April 2008, 03:21 AM | 
	
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				 Hanacaraka and the deat of basa Jawa 
 Pak Alan,
 
 Your respected source is correct, but the current spelling should be slaka rather than sloko. The letters are text-book and there can be no confusion in the reading.
 
 The spelling...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  18th November 2007, 08:46 AM | 
	
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				 Aji Saka 
 If you like, Alan... I am interested in commenting on the mention of Ajisaka. Who was and why Ajisaka? My intuition is that Ajisaka is the personification of "the knowledge of the pillar(s)" similar...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  17th November 2007, 11:35 PM | 
	
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				 Aksara Bali and Kres 
 Pak Alan,
 
 I am certain that I have read somewhere, that the first inscriptions of keris mention it as KRES, and experts who analysed the prasasti were convinced that kres means keris. I notice...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  17th November 2007, 11:21 PM | 
	
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				 Damascene and Pamor 
 Dear forumites,
 
 I have heard that pamor ios damascene, and also I have heard that the two techniques are not the same. Which is the truth can anyone explain the difference if there is any?
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  14th November 2007, 05:11 AM | 
	
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				 As the first found inscriptions that mention... 
 As the first found inscriptions that mention keris call it kres, it might be safe to assume that from the beginning the greneng was called a greneng. The Balinese alphabet does have a dha, by the...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  13th November 2007, 06:53 AM | 
	
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				 meanings 
 Hello,
 
 A very interesting discussion. While thinking about the symbolic meaning and function of the greneng, it might be appropriate to keep in mind that the meaning of greneng is also "to...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  15th September 2007, 04:08 AM | 
	
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				 Gusti Djoeminah 
 Raden Usmen,
 
 As far as I know there is no unbravery in scrabble...Maybe Alan can help us here being a true-blue native speaker. But oral history about a crown-prince who lost his throne to...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  14th September 2007, 06:15 AM | 
	
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				 Gusti Djuminah 
 Salam Raden Usman,
 
 I think that you are refering to Gusti Djuminah, who would have been HBVIII but instead was put under house arrest (kurantil) untill he died short after the Japanese occupation....
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  17th July 2007, 05:41 PM | 
	
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				 Interesting point about Putri Cempa. Cheng ho's... 
 Interesting point about Putri Cempa. Cheng ho's armada visited Majapahit and Tuban though... there was a lot of Chinese influence during the times when China ruled the waves. Also it appears that to...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  14th July 2007, 03:01 PM | 
	
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				 Magnets? Yin-Yang? 
 Salam keris everyone,
 
 I am not very clever and often put both my feet in my mouth but I don't think that magnets (besi berani) have anything to do with keris spirits, unless you trust the wierd...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  13th July 2007, 01:13 PM | 
	
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				 Pilisium 
 Pak Ganja,
 
 I am very interested in the pilisium wood. The pendok is amazing - I have never seen anything like it. I am currently creating a traditional kebun of aroun 3,5 hectares in a remote...
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  10th July 2007, 06:48 AM | 
	
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	| Forum: Keris Warung Kopi  10th July 2007, 04:51 AM | 
	
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				 The death of Arya Penangsang + 
 Mas Usman, sorry for not yet responding to your PM, but yes, I have some other translations of macapat (read four) songs. However these are still changing, it is not easy to get the English to be...
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