Si Pitung

Based on oral tradition, the name Pitung is derived from pituan pitulung (Javanese for "group of seven").

[2] Pitung's criminal career started after money earned from the sale of his father's goats was stolen in Tanah Abang.

Later Pitung invited his friends – Dji-ih, Rais, and Jebul – to rob Hadji Sapiudin, a wealthy landowner who lived northeast of Batavia, on 30 July 1892.

One telling has it that the four men posed as civil servants and stated that Sapiudin was under investigation for fraud, but offered to keep his money in safekeeping.

[2] According to the daily Hindia Olanda, on 18 July 1892 a schout (kind of police officer) in Tanah Abang rummaged through Bitoeng's house in one of villages of Sukabumi.

[2] A detail found in folklore, but not present in accounts from the period, is that Hinne shot and killed Pitung with a golden bullet.

[5] Hinne was awarded the title Broeder van de Nederlandsche Leeuw (Brother of the Dutch Lion) for his part in stopping Pitung.

[9] When the city began to develop, most of the cemetery where Pitung was buried was built over with the head offices of Telkom Indonesia.

[10] In the lenong version, Pitung is described as a humble person, a good Muslim, a hero of Betawi people, and an upholder of justice.

[2][14] Pitung's story appears in rancak (a kind of ballad), syair (narrative poems), and lenong (folk-plays performed by semi-professional actors).

[15] The film starred Herman Shin as Pitung and the keroncong singer Ining Resmini as a love interest.