Mbah Maridjan

Male, Deceased Person

1927 – 2010

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Who was Mbah Maridjan?

Mas Penewu Surakso Hargo, better known as Mbah Maridjan was the spiritual guardian or "gatekeeper" of the Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi. His birthplace was in the mountainside hamlet of Kinahrejo, Umbulharjo Village, Cangkringan District, of the Sleman Regency, on the island of Java in Indonesia.

He was killed at the age of 83 by a pyroclastic flow that destroyed his home in the village of Kinahrejo during the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi.

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Born
1927
Nationality
  • Indonesia
Died
Oct 26, 2010

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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