Before going home, stopping briefly to the house YogYES Mbah Maridjan Kaliadem south. Grandfather was born 1927 courtiers mandated by the Sultan of Yogyakarta to be Interpreter Lock Mount Merapi, continued his father's office.
As a caretaker, his duty to "guard" of Mount Merapi. Each year he also led the charge of ritual Labuhan Merapi, hundreds of people climb up to near the summit of Mount Merapi and pray together to invoke the protection of the divine. The tradition carried out each month of Rajab in the Javanese calendar.
Mbah Maridjan figure to be very popular before the eruption of Mount Merapi in 2006. Early May of that year, Mount Merapi began issuing lava. Sensor equipped with sophisticated computers had predicted would soon erupt Mount Merapi. But Mbah Maridjan refused to evacuate the grounds Sultan mandated duty to him. Several days later, Mbah Maridjan even climbed Mount Merapi and prayed all day that God will protect lives and homes. Believe it or not, Mount Merapi and then subsided and the President also had time to review the site. Some of 11.0000 residents have been evacuated and then allowed to return to their homes
Mount Merapi erupted a month later a new and material stockpiled millions of cubic Gendol Kali, Kali Krasak, and Kaliadem; but there were no casualties except two people who died in the bunker. Since then the name of Mbah Maridjan very popular in Indonesia due to the mass media barrage. Many people then associate the figure of him with supernatural powers, even not a few who came to him to ask for a "blessing".
Indeed, Mbah Maridjan is not like the notion of people. Mbah Maridjan is a modest figure, friendly, as well as religious. When we arrived at his home, Mbah Maridjan are being met but we always welcome guests to enter. Small talk was flowing in the Java language and Mbah Maridjan repeatedly threw joke. All guests were treated to drinks and potluck dish.
A guest and expressed his intention to ask for a "blessing" for his business success but Mbah Maridjan refused. "To my knowledge, which can give a blessing it is Gusti Allah; other ndak can, let alone me," said Mbah Maridjan.
Conversation then went to a variety of topics, among others, of Mount Merapi. Mbah Maridjan told me that every time the volcano showed signs of erupting, he was the most trouble. Day and night the house Interpreter Lock Mount Merapi would be flooded with hundreds of guests to the grandfather who is old, it was not able to rest. Guests are usually asked the same question: when the mountain was about to erupt? Mbah Maridjan answer was always the same, "Do not ask me. Ask Gusti Allah Wills."
As courtiers, he received a salary of Rp. 5800 / month. The number was actually only able to buy one liter of rice, but Mbah Maridjan (as well as thousands of other courtiers) had had enough with a simple life. "Life is not excessive, must often look down," Mbah Maridjan counsel at his guest.
Soon after midday call to prayer rang from a nearby mosque. Mbah Maridjan was saying goodbye to his guests to perform daily prayers at the mosque, we also leave to go home.
That Yogyakarta, pal. Many things are not as simple as that visible on the screen. Kaliadem, Mount Merapi, and Mbah Maridjan locals describe the nature of friendship and loyalty of most of the people around Yogyakarta on Java tradition without conflict with religious beliefs.
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