Sontoloyo : Javanese people who’s herding ducks

Sontoloyo! In Central Java language, sontoloyo is a job title (profession) for one or more of herding ducks (in Javanese language: people who’s herding ducks). Usually wearing hat (hat typical of the field shape like a funnel). Takes a long thin stick and tip of the stick but there are plastic or whatever it is that looks like the tassels waving. It is pure sontoloyo. Subject then sontoloyo was used as an expression for the cursing that person is a development which certainly has nothing to do with this paper. A sontoloyo be responsible for all the ducks that herded by him. Form of responsibility shown by how a sontoloyo directs his ducks to be able to find food and reproduce as much as possible. He's finding the best places for the ducks that place is the ducks can eat comfortably, and not disturbed by anyone.

When herded the ducks, he was behind the duck, or in other words, it is always noticed sontoloyo who was in the back of the duck because ducks are usually slow-if not properly supervised, duck who likes the road behind this might obscure or maybe even by eaten fields snake without the knowledge of the sontoloyo. A sontoloyo also responsible for entering the duck back into the cage at night. even if there are less healthy-looking duck, then it will say to the skipper sontoloyo duck to get some money and buy drugs. Then the ducks treated sontoloyo pray that the duck was okay and a speedy recovery. The next day, the sontoloyo must be prepared to re-graze the ducks are already starving. But usually before leaving, check sontoloyo cage and usually picking up duck eggs that generated by the ducks in this night. Eggs were given to the skipper's ducks are then sontoloyo will get a share of the results with the ducks skipper.