•When colonial powers and firearms (guns) entered Indonesia, the krisdeclined in use, but it continued to be important as a symbol of magical power in ritual contexts, such as the royal court.
•Nowadays it functions like a personal amulet, keeping evil forces away from the owner.
•The krisappears in wedding rituals, and other rituals where continuity with the past and with ancestors (and ancestor spirits) is important.
•The krisis thus an example of adat(tradition; mentioned at the start of this discussion). It comes from the pre-Muslim past, but it continues to have meaning in the setting of Islamized Indonesia.