HISTORIAN Sri Margana’s first encounter with Blambangan was back in 2002. Born in Klaten, Central Java, on 15 October 1969, Margana found that the eastern Java kingdom had played a crucial role in the history of Indonesia, but had almost been erased from the Indonesian collective memory. Concerned about this, Margana set about revealing the true story of the kingdom, a project that eventually lasted more than five years and the findings of whic