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Dozens of Ngasem Bird Market's regular bird vendors indulged themselves in a kirab (a procession, usually as part of a cultural ritual/ceremony) on Thursday, 22 April 2010. They wore neat traditional outfits, rode on andong (a type of horse cart) passing through Pojok Benteng Kulon (the remaining of what used to be the western corner of the palace's four forts) to move to a new place that has been provided for them. They brought along their birds and birdcages, the pillars that so far have been sustaining their lives. That morning, kirab boyongan (a procession of moving from one place to another, which, for this particular case, refers to the moving of the bird vendors from their old place, Ngasem Bird Market, to the new place, PASTY) was carried out. Ngasem Bird Market that had existed for dozens of years, marking the existence of Javanese men keeping singing birds as pets, was left behind. A more proper market for both animals and ornament plants was then opened and the tradition was continued from there.
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