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Legend of Joko Bau

Long time ago there lived a crown prince, Joko Bau ( Bau Rekso ). He was considered as a hero from Mataram. His father's name was Kyai Cempaluk.

One day, Joko Bau rebelled the Mataram Kingdom and did any rebellion. Because it was considered will endanger this kingdom, he was isolated into a forest then. There was no one with him.

After view days in forest, Joko Bau wandered and found a place which was not far from forest called alas Gambiran. Then, he did topo ngalong with position like kalong ( cave bat ) there. No one could wake him up from his topo, included Dewi Lanjar. Although she tried very hard, her effort never succeded. Joko Bau could defeat all of her soldier by his invisible strength. On the contrary, she could be defeated and became his wife later.

The only one person who could woke Joko Bau up from his topo was Tan Kwie Djan. He was delegated from Mataram to subjugate Joko Bau. Then, he took Joko Bau come back to Mataram. Since then, people called the place which was used by Joko Bau to do his topo ngalong as Pekalongan because there were so many cave bats and Joko Bau did his topo like a kalong which is in Javanese language has the same meaning with cave bat.