One of the strangest sights of Surabaya is aptly named ‘fat body’ statue, more formally known as Joko Dolog. This ancient statue sits grinning from its park in the middle of the city’s administrative district, close to Grahadi, the Governor of East Java’s official residence. The stories say that this statue was built at the orders of King Kertanegara in the 13th century to dispel a curse thath prevented the city from prospering.
The city of Surabaya continues to prosper, Surabaya is not the place to come and day dream about the glories of the past, as exciting as its history may be. It is a place where the past flows into the future in an unbroken tradition, and where sign of that tradition are visible everywhere.
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