![Arcadia](https://arcadia.ub.uni-muenchen.de/public/journals/1/pageHeaderLogoImage_en.png)
In 2004, the government of Indonesia declared Mount Merapi to be the nation’s thirty-ninth national park. However, since the mountain is a key feature of the sacred landscape of central Java, the creation of Merapi National Park was greeted with widespread protests from the villagers and farmers.