Boar
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Or more likely, this 'piggy bank'/'celengan' refers to the myth of Babi Ngepet, a wereboar-ish creature, a man who can turn into a black boar/pig and then magically steal money from other people.
Source: Useful Notes / Indonesia -
Out of sheer coincidence, the Indonesian (or to be more precise, Javanese) word for piggy bank is celengan, where celeng means pig/boarnote the suffix -an means 'something made in the likeness of', so celengan means an object made in the likeness of 'celeng', or pig/boar.
Source: Useful Notes / Indonesia
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