Merapi, Part of Life
"It would be the end of Yogyakarta" they said, "Merapi would explode for the last time and turned it into the city of
ash." It was the thing that Endah remembers the most when Merapi explosion
in 2010.
As we know, Merapi is one of the most active volcanoes in
Indonesia. It may not ever died, even it has had "heavy cough" so
many times; ……,1997,2001, 2006, and the last 2010.
Endah went to Yogyakarta to continue her study. She actually had never thought that she would see Merapi's anger in her
first year at university. She prepared nothing and got no idea what she had to
do to face it. She decided to runaway to Bantul with her friends for a while instead of came back to her hometown. Although in her deep heart she was
really scared and wanted to go home, especially after hearing the rumors.
"There are so much bad rumors spread at that time.
Television, newspaper, and almost all of media presented the news that I think too
much exaggerating. One of the news programs even dare to say that
Merapi would have a big last eruption and finally would sink Yogyakarta in ash. And also many stories and myths of the community itself, which increasingly made the refugees felt unsafe. You know what kind of scared they made to a person who has first experience like me" She explained.
Endah comes from Bengkulu, she explained that it has strong earthquake there. Although she little bit often felt earthquake but the explosion of Merapi took its own place in her mind. "Having earthquake in strength about five SR is something like a piece of cake for me, I live with it. However for the experience of earthquake that is followed by materials rain and thunder sound, it was like a surprise on my birthday" she said, " and would it be the end of life?."
No comments:
Post a Comment