Hello Charles,
A really neat Parang Betino! AvZ shows one example from Willem van der Post's collection in the klewang overview (Fig. 263).
A quite distinctive blade type that resembles the amanremu which may be its northern cousin; the usually present bolster seems pretty unique though.
I agree this is a status piece - still fully functional though. The business examples I've seen come with horn hilts of the same style.
The top end examples like in
this thread appear to be status pieces for ceremonial use only.
I do wonder why there are apparently not that many surviving examples and, especially, why a quite considerable proportion seem to be status pieces.
Regards,
Kai