Technology! Knickers Repellent Gold Infidelity

Knickers from the gold plate is similar to cupeng and Badong or jempang in Aceh. Is a woman's pubic cover, worn daily for the young girls of the nobility.

Nobility heritage of Southeast Maluku artifacts are relics of the past that one of its functions for the antidote to infidelity. So other than as a cultural property, also shows that women have received special attention since a long time.

Cupeng, Badong, and jempang, the trio has now become collectibles and are in the National Museum of Jakarta, the trio also made of gold.

Cupeng is a kind of pants padlocked or locked. This term is known in Aceh. At first cupeng a ceremonial object used by a small female child. Its function is as a cover gender. Shaped like a heart and installation tied with threads on the stomach of the child. One well-known artifacts made from 22 carat gold, measuring 6.5 cm high and 5.8 cm wide.

Cupeng gold is commonly used by respectable people. Artifacts are full of carvings, decorated with motifs of tread edges starlings, the center surrounded by a row of floral lotus flower show, the four strands in the form of a rhombus. The middle section was bermatakan Jakut red flowers.

According to old traditions, cupeng must be worn by young girls aged two to five years. Or used when children begin to run until the child begins to wear a sarong own good. They believe, cupeng an antidote to evil spirits. In the first usage, threads are worn around first granted spells or incantations by a shaman.

Besides Indonesia, cupeng known in Peninsular Malaysia. There called caping. Allegedly, the hat was introduced to Southeast Asia by Indian traders in the heyday of the kingdom of Srivijaya, from the 7th century until the 12th. In Malaysia caping very popular in the north, south, and east coast of Malaysia. While in Indonesia cupeng widely used by people around the east coast of Sumatra Malays, Dayaks, Bugis, Makassar, and Aceh.

Badong

Cupeng is almost similar to Badong. Badong is jewelry for the lady or a respected figure. Its use is placed outside the fabric, right in front of a woman's genitals. Badong is a symbol for women who have married and used at the time their husbands were at war or was outside the house. Badong is also used by the monks or clergy woman. Meant to resist the temptation to forever do not have intercourse with the opposite sex.

Badong made of gold is found in the Madison area, possibly derived from the Majapahit period ke-14/15 century. A unique, Badong surface decorated with the story of Sri Tanjung, a holy woman who was accused of cheating by her husband, Sidapaksa, and then killed. But one day Goddess Durga Sri Tanjung come to the rescue by providing a "gajamina" (elephant fish) to cross the river of the underworld to heaven as a reward for her chastity.

Jempang

Similar to cupeng and Badong is jempang. This artifact was found in Gowa, South Sulawesi. Jempang also cover female genitalia, is everyday clothes for young girls of the nobility. The third artifact is a relic of the past that one of its functions for the antidote to infidelity. So other than as a cultural property, also shows that women have received special attention since a long time.