The Keymaster and the Sultan
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
When Mount Merapi was about to unleash heat clouds, Mbah Maridjan headed deeper into the bubbling cauldron. A resident defying the Sultans order?
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IT was still morning, but the stinging cold climate of Mount Merapi did not affect an elderly man who was sitting on the watu dampit (two large stones) of the Srimanganti platform, located a mere 2.5 kilometers from the summit of Mount Merapi. This 79-year-old man is best known as Mbah Maridjan. He sat cross-legged and faced west, his two palms meeting in front of his face in meditative prayer.
It is not easy to reach the Srimanganti platform, whi
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