The Gilingan Keris

[Bjorn]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

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.

Couldn't agree more. It's representative of an idea and a concept. It's not the actual thing, so there's no need for it to be 100% accurate. People look at it and they can recognize what it represents. Mission achieved.