Si Jagur is a large cannon in the back of the Fatahillah museum . It is a remain from the portugees and has a latin inscription saying ' I get reborn outside me'.
Anyway that is not the most remarcable about the thing. The other side is a fist with the thumb peeping between the index finger and the middle finger. Back then it meand the invincibility from the Portugees...but Indonesians see it as a fertility thing.
Lots of woman have pushed their tummy against the fist , ltough forbidden by the government. (someone told us woman still come to sit on the cannon each friday...is that true?)
Anyway , a nice story about a special canon.
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