Cleaning up the President's bad aura

As the cabinet is preparing to polish President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's image with the establishment of some websites, a Javanese cleric today conducted the second cleaning up of the president's bad luck in a ritual called ruwatan.

KRH Darmodipuro, an expert in Javanese calendar who conducted the ritual in Solo, Central Java said today that endless misseries faced by the country (tsunami, floods, avian flu, bombings etc, I suggest) have something to do with the president's bad aura he inherited right from his early life.

Javanese rituals are so varied and distinctive. Amidst this ethnic diversity, one that is known by most people to eliminate the ill-fated destiny of someone's future is Ruwatan sukerta, or more simply Ruwatan. The word Ruwatan comes from word ruwat meaning free, the suffix -an changes the word into a noun, so Ruwatan means the action of making someone free or clean from dirt, unluckiness, impurity, and filth.

According to Darmodipuro, who also the chairman of Radya Pustaka Museum in Solo, SBY born on Friday Kliwon, September 9, 1949, fall into wuku Bala according to the Javanese beliefs. Those who born in the Wuku bala normally have bad lucks.

"Ever since he was elected as the president, our nation entering endless misseries. Tsunami, floods, fires, airplane crashes, landslides etc that cost human lives. These have something to do with the presiden't wuku. He needs rituals like this," Darmodipuro said.

The first ruwatan on SBY was conducted in June 2005 following the Aceh tsunami. Why SBY needs another ruwatan? "Because the misseries stay with us still," he said.

For those of you who want to know more about the ritual, take a tour to www.ruwatan.i-p.com. See, even such ritual has the website, far ahead of the cabinet's plan to clean up SBY's image through websites.

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