A long time ago, there were two
Kingdom in a region called
Kahuripan. They are Jenggala
Kingdom, ruled by King
Jayengnegara, and Kediri
Kingdom, ruled by King
Jayengrana. The two kings were
asked to unify their kingdom by
their ancestor King Airlangga.
They finally decided to do it
through a marriage of their
descendant, prince Panji
Asmarabangun (son of king
Jayengnegara) and princess
Dewi Sekartaji (daughter of
king Jayengrana). They all live
happily together as a big family.
One day the kingdom was
attacked by enemy. The battle
was fierce that it could
endangered the live of princess
Dewi Sekartaji. The princess
decided to flee and hide in a
village far away from Jenggala.
In order to protect herself
princess Dewi Sekartaji
changed her identity into
Kleting Kuning and lived in a
woman’s house by the name
Nyai Intan with her daughter:
Kleting Abang, Kleting Ijo and
Kleting Biru.
Nyai Intan turned out to be an
evil lady. She made Kleting
Kuning to do all the house work
such as cooking, doing the
laundry, cleaning the house
every day. Her daughter was no
different, they acted as if
Kleting Kuning was their house
maid. They yelled at her
whenever they want something.
They only fed Kleting Kuning
once a day.
Meanwhile at the kingdom,
prince Panji Asmarabangun had
successfully defeat the enemy.
At that moment, he realized that
his beloved wife was not in the
palace anymore and no one
knew her whereabout. He was
so sad and he decided to sent
some of his body guard to
search for his wife. They went
for a couple of days until one
day, one of the body guard
returned to the palace with a
news.
“Your majesty, please forgive
me to interrupt your rest” said
the body guard.
“It’s okay. Have you located my
wife, soldier?” said the prince.
“My apology Your majesty, I
have not find your wife yet, but
I found a girl that looked like
princess Dewi Sekartaji in a
village far away from here. I
couldn’t confirmed it yet
because she was working in a
house of a rich widow as a
house maid.” Said the body
guard.
The prince decided to disguise
as a handsome and rich man
looking for a wife to attract the
girl to come to him so that he
will be able to see if the girl was
truly his beloved wife or not.
He went to Dadapan village
near Bengawan Solo river. The
village was right across the
village where Kleting Kuning
lived. The prince stayed in an
old widow house by the name
Mbok Randa and changed his
name into Ande Ande Lumut.
Kleting Abang, Ijo and Biru
were very happy to hear the
news. All of them wish to
marry the handsome Ande
Ande Lumut. They prepared
themselves and they wore
their best clothes so they
became pretty. Kleting
Kuning tried to praise them
but she got mockery in return
from her sisters. They did not
allowed Kleting Kuning to go
to Dadapan village to see
Ande Ande Lumut. They sent
her to the river to do the
laundry and she followed.
Kleting Kuning collected all the
dirty clothes and went to the
river. Truthfully, she had no
intention to go with her sister to
Dadapan village because she
only love one man in her live
and the man is her husband,
prince Panji Asmarabangun.
She promised to herself that she
will always be faithful to her
husband.
When she was doing the
laundry, suddenly a crane came
to her. The crane can talk just
like human and it brought a
whip on its claw. The crane
started talking to the princess, it
said that the princess have to go
to Dadapan village and she will
meet her husband, prince Panji
Asmarabangun, in the village.
The crane also gave her the
whip and ask her to use it when
she needed it. After that the
crane left. Kleting Kuning
rushed back to the house and
prepare herself to go to
Dadapan village.
Meanwhile Kleting Abang, Ijo
and Biru were already at the
river bank. The river was very
large and there was no boat
around. When they were still
trying to figure out how to get
to the other side of the river,
Kleting Abang saw a huge
creature floating on the water. It
was a giant crab and its name is
Yuyu Kangkang. They didn’t
know that Yuyu Kangkang was
actually the servant of Ande
Ande Lumut and it was
assigned to test every candidate
of his wife.
Kleting Abang asked if Yuyu
Kangkang was willing to take
them to the other side of the
river. Yuyu Kangkang smiled
and said, he will take them on
his back to the other side of the
river if they agree to kiss him as
the reward. All of them agree to
Yuyu Kangkang request
because they really want to go
to Dadapan village, so they
kissed the giant crab. After that
Yuyu Kangkang took all of
them across the river.
A couple of minutes later,
Kleting Kuning also arrived at
the river bank. She brought the
whip from the crane with her.
Yuyu Kangkang gave her the
same offer just like her sister
but she refuse. She keep asking
to Yuyu Kangkang to take her
and Yuyu Kangkang keep
asking the same offer but she
didn’t change her mind.
Loosing her patience, Kleting
Kuning hit the whip to the river
and in instant the water
subsided. Yuyu Kangkang was
scared to see that and then he
took Kleting Kuning to the
other side of the river for free.
The three sisters arrived first
before Kleting Kuning. They
show their beauty to Ande Ande
Lumut right away.
Unfortunately, Ande Ande
Lumut decided to not choose
any of them. They were upset
and ask him to explain his
reason. When Ande Ande
Lumut was about to explain his
reason to the three sisters,
suddenly Kleting Kuning
arrived at the door. Ande Ande
Lumut walked toward her right
away and he said, “I choose this
girl to be my wife.”.
The three sisters became so
angry, and they said “why don’t
you choose one of us?”. After
that Ande Ande Lumut
introduce them to his loyal
friend, Yuyu Kangkang, and he
said, “I didn’t choose any of
you because you give your
precious kiss to Yuyu
Kangkang so easily, and the
only one who refuse to do so is
Kleting Kuning.”. Kleting
Kuning was so happy because
she recognized her husband
since the moment she stood at
the door. She use the magic
whip to turn her back into a
beautiful princess. Finally they
reunited and live in their palace
happily along with Mbok Randa
who helped the prince to be
back with his wife.
