DEBRIS and rocks slowly fell from the heights of the crumbling cliff in Nagari Sungai Abu, Hiliran Gumanti subdistrict, Solok, West Sumatra, on Thursday evening, September 26. Right beneath the cliff, 21-year-old Rezky Ardiko Putra was busy digging a hole two meters deep. He ignored his friends’ warnings about the signs that the over 10-meter high hill would soon collapse.

Rezky was not unaware that a landslide could happen. He and do