30 Temple Buried at Lereng Merapi

It is estimated there are about 30 objects of cultural heritage in the form of a hidden temple in the slopes of Mount Merapi, Yogyakarta. Search site pent require central government support. Therefore, no special equipment to detect the stone temple.

Head of Culture in Yogyakarta Djoko Dwiyanto mention, there were only about 39 objects of cultural heritage found in the area of Yogyakarta and its surroundings. "The archaeologists also still continue to use remote sensing equipment to find it," Djoko said on Wednesday (01/05/2011).

the tool uses geographical perspective electronic system that detects through a regional approach. Only, this method can not determine with
certainty whether the stone found in the type of stone temples. "So, it could be volcanic stone temple or a stone or even not," says professor of archeology University of Gadjah Mada.

He explains, for extracting objects of cultural heritage, has budgeted 10 billion fund and will be conducted by the Center for Archaeology and the Institute for Preservation and Archaeological Heritage (BP3) in Yogyakarta.

Head of the Yogyakarta BP3 Herni Pramastuti said, there are five temples discovered in the decade 1960 to 2010. The temple is the Temple Morangan, the temple was, Temple Kadisoko, Sambisari, and Temple Kimpulan. "buried 2 meters to 9 meters. The discovery is usually by accident, then they reported to BP3," said Herni.

Every year there is not necessarily due to the discovery of new temple BP3 had no special equipment to detect the stone temple. "The excavation of cultural heritage objects must use special equipment that can detect the stone temple,