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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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May 8, 1993
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KETOK.ASC
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from NEXUS New Times - Volume 2, Number 13 ,Published in Australia
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Magic Mechanics
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Jakarta, Indonesia - The World Bank knows that Indonesia's economic
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problems can't be solved by magic. But fixing the boss's car is
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another matter.
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Just ask Nicholas Hope, resident director of the World Bank's office
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here. After an accident damaged his Toyota Crown, a local garage
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said repairs - mainly body work - would take two weeks and cost
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$700. Too long and too much, Mr. Hope's staff decided, turning
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instead to a practitioner of 'ketok magic', or magic knock, an
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Indonesian hybrid in which mechanics tap unearthly powers to better
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wield their socket wrenches and spot-welders.
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Half a day later the car came back, fully restored. The bill came
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to just $122, and now, more than 18 months later, the car "still
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looks fine," Mr. Hope says.
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Thousands of ketok-magic shops have opened in Indonesia in recent
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years. Workers in these garages protray themselves as merely the
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tools of a magic spirit with which they can commune after long
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periods of fasting and rigorous study.
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These magicians prefer to practise their trade with no outsider
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looking on. At Ketok Magic Nusantara, which fixed Mr. Hope's car,
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visitors are kept from the inner sanctum by an iron fence. Another
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garage bars customers from viewing the tools.
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All of Indonesia's under-the-hood sages claim ties to a day labourer
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from East Java named Turut, who acquired a reputation as a kind of
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Merlin among mechanics before he died in 1986. Eddy Susanto, a 32-
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year-old worker at Ketok Magic Nusantara, says that, as a child, he
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saw Mr. Turut pick up a length of railway track with his bare hands
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and tie it around his waist. Says Mr. Susanto: "It convinced me he
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wasn't an ordinary person."
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Mr. Turut guided Mr. Susanto and 29 other self-proclaimed disciples
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through a training regimen. They earned the right both to practise
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ketok magic and to train others, but proselytizing has proven
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difficult. Young people "aren't patient to learn the magic things,"
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Mr. Susanto says.
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Sceptics abound. Ishak Ismail, owner of a Buyong Motors, a
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conventional Jakarta garage, says: "I don't believe in such a thing.
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I do the real things. No magic."
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Tarsikun, the driver who delivered Mr. Hope's World Bank car to its
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ketok doctor, is also dubious. He says that while waiting outside,
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he heard loud noises that "didn't sound like magic." Still, he
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adds, "the results are OK, and much faster than ordinary workshops."
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Source : The Wall Street Journal - 5 Feb 93'
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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