“They
said it would be the last life of Yogyakarta. Merapi would come to its
greatness anger and turned Yogyakarta into the city of ash,” it was the thing
that Endah remembers the most when she heard about Merapi explosion in last
2010. As we know, Merapi volcano that stands in Yogyakarta is an everlasting
volcano. It will not ever died even it has had “heavy cough” for about 60
times.
Even
Endah comes from Bengkulu, that she explained usually has strong earth quakes,
the Merapi explosion took his own part inside her mind. Having earth quakes in
strength about 5 SR or even more will not frightened her anymore, but experiencing
rain of materials from Merapi, seeing white ashes covers the road, and hearing thunder
sound in the night, are things she had never imagined before.
It
was her first experience. She prepared nothing to face it. “I was so scared at
that time,” she confessed. “I couldn’t go home, even I really wanted to go home
when I saw news about it on television.”
News
on television, newspaper, were so exaggerate she said. They showed the worst
time in Merapi repeatedly. Even the condition had been better, they kept
reported it. Not only that, some people tried to guess and spread bad rumors
about Merapi.
“I
remembered so well when a news program in a television even dared to say that
Merapi would have a big last eruption and sank Yogyakarta in ash. They put mystical
elements to their news, feeding us with scary news. You know what kind of
scared they made to a person who had first experience of it like me, don't you?”
She said.
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