We would often hear the term of hidung belang (masher). This term is used to refer to men who like to tease a woman, or like to play women. How does the origin of this word?
Allegedly, the term appeared in the century of 17 to 18, the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia. At that time, the Dutch who came to Indonesia almost all without wives. According to Victor Ido in Indie in den Ouden Gouden Tijd, it raises social and moral problems seriously. One of them is the emergence of Dutch male concubine with native women.
One woman who had engaged in love with a Dutch man, and caused a commotion is Saartje Specx. Saartje Specx, as recorded by Hertog in Vrouwen naar Jacatra, was was a foster child of January Pieterzoon Coen. He is loved by Pieter Cortenhoeff, officers escort the Governor General. One day they were caught making love in a room. Coen was furious, and then punish the young officer and accused him of adultery. His nose was scribbled with charcoal and then hanged in the middle of town. Since then all the people who were arrested adultery, then his face or nose was scribbled with charcoal. Thus was born the term of this unique, hidung belang.
