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Originally Posted by ganjawulung
Some people believed, that wedung was usually used by ulamas. But I'm sorry, I don't have any "direct source" to tell you, what, why and how the wedung is..
Ganjawulung
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Here is a written source from Gardner, 1936:
"Wedung is a type of parang worn by chiefs in Java, having a long horn spur to slip into the belt. On state occasions these chiefs may only wear one keris and that at the back; and the wearing of the wedung is intended to symbolise their readiness to cut down belukar (undergrowth) or do anything else their sovereign may require."
Michael