RT Documentary traveled to Indonesia to speak to both waroks, and their gemblaks.
"Once you gain the magic power and knowledge, should you become fond of a female being, your power shall dwindle or be gone. To prevent this from happening we prefer the masculine love of a gemblak," says Saadi, a warok, who currently has a pre-teen boy, Kadam, living in his house, who shows the crew his room, right next to his master's from which he can be called at any time of day or night.
"As a compensation a warok gets an assistant - a beloved assistant. Why is he beloved? Because it's a boy who understands a warok without words, they complete each other perfectly," says Jemarin, a warok from West Java.
The practice predates the spread of Islam, and Dirman, a former gemblak who now speaks out against the tradition, never questioned it at the time.
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