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        "msgid": "the-dieng-children-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-03-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "The Dieng children",
        "author": null,
        "source": "",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "The Dieng children I appreciate very much Ms. Helen Tainsh's effort to revel something unique and interesting of the Indonesian culture in her article The Vagabond Children of the Dieng Plateau (The Jakarta Post, March 10, 1996). However, I think the author (whom I presume to be a foreign tourist or an expatriate) erroneously translates the word gembel (both the \"e\"s are pronounced like the \"e\"s in English word \"pen\"), into \"vagabond\".",
        "content": "<p>The Dieng children<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate very much Ms. Helen Tainsh's effort to revel<br>\nsomething unique and interesting of the Indonesian culture in her<br>\narticle The Vagabond Children of the Dieng Plateau (The Jakarta<br>\nPost, March 10, 1996).<\/p>\n<p>However, I think the author (whom I presume to be a foreign<br>\ntourist or an expatriate) erroneously translates the word gembel<br>\n(both the \"e\"s are pronounced like the \"e\"s in English word<br>\n\"pen\"), into \"vagabond\".<\/p>\n<p>It is true that the word gembel in Jakartan dialect means<br>\nvagabond, but in Central Java this very same word, spelled and<br>\npronounced in exactly the same way, has a different meaning. That<br>\nis, the condition of hair correctly described by Ms. Tainsh:<br>\nfrizzy matted hanks or dreadlocks.<\/p>\n<p>So a bocah gembel is not necessarily a vagabond child but may<br>\njust have gembel hair.<\/p>\n<p>There are other words like the word above. Let's take the<br>\nJakartan word kesel (here both \"e\"s are pronounced like the \"e\"<br>\nin the English word \"student\") which means \"upset\" or \"annoyed\"<br>\nfor Jakartans but means \"physically tired\" in Javanese.<\/p>\n<p>Ketoprak is a popular dish of Jakarta - and a type of<br>\nJavanese play.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Sulistiowati<\/p>\n<p>Bekasi<\/p>",
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