ON Thursday, the cemetery at the corner of the village is silent as usual. The graveyard is not very large, but it is considered sacred by the residents of Stabelan hamlet in Tlogolele village, Boyolali regency. The mountain people came down to clean their ancestors graves after their village was rocked by an earthquake on that particular morning. A house was damaged by the minor quake.

Tlogolele, the village which is only 4 kilometers from Merapi