If I ignore the dress, what I believe I can see is a Javanese keris, North Coast, tending to the west.
To my mind, nothing at all unusual in this.
Majapahit was trading weapons all over SE Asia, and as far west as Sri Lanka, Tuban on the North Coast of Jawa was a port renowned as a supplier of weapons, but waved blades that display Tuban characteristics are very rare.
The straight gonjo is what causes me to think more to west, but along the north coast.
Possibly Cirebon to Banten.
There is a type of keris that comes from Brunei that looks a bit like this, but this one under discussion does not seem to be sufficiently refined to be one of these Brunei blades.
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