Awaiting Mbah Petruks Whisper
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
AS if it happened only yesterday, the disaster is still vivid in the mind of Ismiyati, 35. On November 11, 1994, wedding decorations made of young yellow-colored coconut fronds adorned her house in Turgo hamlet, the highest hamlet in the village of Hargobinangun, Turi subdistrict, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta. On that particular day, her family was holding a wedding reception for Ismiyatis elder sibling. The guests were coming, the wedding feast wa
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