WHEN Soeharto resigned as president in May 1998, he said a memorable quote: “Ora dadi presiden yo rak pateken.” He compared 'not being president' as not getting patek (frambusia), which means he had nothing to lose. “The use of expression ora pateken in the Javanese sociocultural repertoire shows that patek disease is considered so serious. The expression means that Javanese people choose 'not to be something' rather than suffering from patek disease,” Bahauddin, a historian at Gajah Mada University, told Historia.

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