Jaran kepang, sometime is also known as jathilan or kuda lumping, a Javanesse tradition that combine between traditional dancing art and magic. Jaran kepang is normally perform by group (4-6) people dancer who dance on a horse toy and traditional gamelan music is played during the show. It looks like a normal dance by a group until at a point (not always happen) dancer would enter entrance mode, where they would dance uncontrolled and eat whatever thing would be given by audience, on most of show, audience would prepare shredded glass to be eaten by Jaran kepang dancer who enter trance mode.

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Mbah Surip, that how we call him, this old men name become famous in Indonesia after he release a song “Tak Gendong Kemana-mana” to public as ring back tone service. “Tak Gendong Kemana-mana” then become no. 1 ring back tone in Indonesia, having more than 8 million who subscribing their mobile phone to this song as their ring back tone, with royalty scheme 60:40, where 60% for Mbah Surip and assumption cost per subscription is US$ 70cents, math will tell us that Mbah Surip get about US$ 3 Million per month. Fantastic …. welldone Grandpa, you really know how to make your retiring program

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