Lintang Kicak grew up in a deep forest to become a great warrior. At the age of two, he was a victim of kidnapping. The kidnappers, who are a married couple, raised them as a means of getting revenge on them, as well as a medium for testing their black magic.
If Lintang died, they would be quite satisfied, and if he could still survive, that would further increase their enthusiasm for further experimentation.
Lintang grew up to be a truly extraordinary child, and it was acknowledged by the two kidnappers husband and wife. It was as if there was some magical power that the boy possessed naturally, which had so far been able to make him endure the harsh tests of life. They sometimes envy and admire it at the same time. They both hate and need it.
Latitude is trained in breathing and meditation exercises which are actually taught in reverse, with the intention of damaging the boy's organs. But who would have thought that these exercises produced such extraordinary internal strength?
One day it was time to finish Lintang by giving him a poisoned drink. After that, the little body was thrown away in the middle of the forest to become a meal for wild beasts.
Yet he was still not allowed to return to God's bosom. He opened his eyes, woke up from his sleep as if he had just woken up from the dead. His body was now immune to various poisons and contained in it tremendous internal energy.
Some powerful people predicted that the child would become a great warrior who would shake up the martial world of the archipelago.
Novel Kota Para Jawara, which is currently known as the city of faith in Jombang in East Java, is a novel filled with the typical lifestyle of pesantren dropouts that is full of the identity of tolerance towards diversity and the values of humanism that characterize Nusantara Islam.
Welcome to the beauty of diverse cultures full of integrated characters that the writer from Jombang Tri Handoyo was keen to capture and put into writing. []
