It don't know what it made from Jean, I assume a steel frame, covered with concrete, and then copper skin over the concrete.
My personal approach to this thing is that it is civic monument intended to remind people of the iconic position of the keris in their society. I do not believe that we should try to appraise it and hold the fact that it is only reminiscent of a keris against it. To 99.9% of the people passing by who view this, it is a keris, it strikes a chord in their cultural memory, and I guess does pretty much what it was intended to do.
Yes, it could have had a bit more time put into design, but would the end result on the ordinary people be any different? I doubt it.
What struck me the first time I saw it was the way it dominates that intersection. It is very, very big. Much bigger in real life than it looks in the photo.
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