WEAPONS keris, INDONESIA TRADITIONAL

Kris is a typical form of body piercing weapons from Indonesia, or perhaps more accurately the archipelago. Based on ancient documents, the dagger in the original form used since the ninth century. strong probability that the dagger has been used before this period.

The use of the keris same communities scattered in groups in Malaysia. At present, usually a knife known in Indonesia (especially in Java, Madura, Bali / Lombok, Sumatra, part of Borneo, and some of Sulawesi), Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand and the Philippines (particularly in the Mindanao region). In Mindanao, the form of weapons, also called keris not many similarities but also shooting weapons.

Keris has a variety of forms, for example, are crooked knife (always odd are many) and some are straight blade. Javanese people take different shapes have different effects esoteric.

Addition to being used as a weapon, a knife is often considered to have supernatural powers. These weapons are often cited in a variety of traditional legends, as well as keris Gandring MPU in the legend of Ken Arok and Ken Dedes.

Procedures for the use of different dagger in their respective regions. In fields such as Javanese and Sundanese, a dagger is placed in peacetime life back, but face war. Meanwhile in Sumatra, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines, a dagger is placed in the front.

In addition to a dagger stabbing weapons, there are a number of others throughout the archipelago, from Aceh rencong, badik from Sulawesi and West Java knife. Keris is above all other weapons from piercing knife. Kris blade is made of a cast in a single metal but a mixture of different metal layers. With this production, has a dagger as a specific form of prestige on the sheet.