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After tracing back for a while, we found out that the western name actually refers to the ketoprak figure, Baron Sakeber. Unlike the common ketoprak figures, Baron Sakeber was a Netherlands nobleman (some said he was a Spanish or Portuguese nobleman) with prominent magical power; it was also said that he once fought against Panembahan Senopati, the founding father of the Mataram Sultanate. And so it was, in the 1930s, the Netherlands used the beach as a hiding place and for storing their weapons; back then, there were only few people living around the beach. We started to think that, perhaps, the beach was named Baron since there were once many Nederlanders living nearby, which was then interrelated with the legend of Baron Sekeber. The beach was then known as Baron Beach to memorize the tale of the miraculous bule (AH Farhani, 2008).
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