Indestructible: Debus fighters performing the Indonesian martial art of ‘pencak silat’ during a demonstration in Bandung while (right) Mulyadi pounds a nail into his nostril. — AFP
Bandung: Mulyadi pounds a nail into his nostril, leaving it embedded in his face, horrifying a group of slack-jawed spectators of ‘debus’, an Indonesian tradition blending martial arts with grotesque self-injury.
Some of his audience may have had enough, but Mulyadi isn’t done yet.
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