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“I Prefer to Die on the Mountain”: Local Resistance to National Park Development on Mount Merapi

Published
2013-11-14

Abstract

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.