There is really no room for doubt about this keris blade, not so much for what it is, but rather for what it is not.
Stylistically it is definitely not Bugis.
No experienced student of the keris would accept that this blade is stylistically Bugis.
The image is of a page in my notebook, it sets out the characteristics of a Bugis style blade & at #10 there is a rough sketch of the blade cross-section.
This blade might have been made in Jawa, it is Javanese in style, but Jawa style was often copied & produced in other places --- I myself have produced Jawa style keris in a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
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