In the
latest news from Jakarta, as reported by The Jakarta Post—Court grants man’s plea to change name—the Tangerang District Court
granted a man’s request to officially change his name from Kentut to Ihsan
Hadi. The request was made at the behest of the man’s son.
Kentut literally means fart.
Well, you
can’t blame the man. I mean, what were his parents thinking? They may as well
have named him “Asshole”.
Ihsan
(formerly Fart) responded by performing the sujud
syukur (prostration of thankfulness) several times in the courtroom. Well,
of course he did. My goodness.
Thirty year
old Ihsan explained that his son had frequently been teased by schoolmates over
the father’s unfortunate name, and often refused to go to school. I’m fairly
certain that this can’t have been easy on Ihsan, either, who did not know why
his parents had given him this name and said that it had never been clearly
explained to him. He had wanted to change his name for years, but no one in his
village knew the proper procedure.
But the
pressure is off now. The air has finally cleared.
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