BANDUNG Bondowoso laid stones and built temples in their hundreds, far into the night. Strangely, he felt no fatigue, but then suddenly he heard in the distance the sounds of dawn.

He knew, without seeing the glow of sunrise that he had failed. He had not completed building 1,000 temples in the allotted time.

The legend of Loro Jonggrangthe legend that explains the formidable temple ruins at Prambananis indeed a story of failure.

The story goes that