The pandemic has not frightened the national keris sector. Aside from the fact that Keris trading will not slow down, the beginning of 2021 also seems to be the year of the “Kris Book”. At the beginning of the Buffalo year, a year after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, various books about Keris were published.
The book is quite comprehensive and titled: “Keris Punggawa Jawa” published in collaboration with Tourism Media Synergy and Surakarta Litera Books. It contains more than 300 pages and features keris from the collection of the Surakarta Punggawa (Surakarta City Official) and the Surakarta Keris Museum.
Mr. Benny is the book editor of a number of Keris authors from Surakarta.