Massive eruption of Merapi Mataram migrated to the East
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Dyah Balitung the Prambanan temple builders a thousand years ago, or rather in the year 900 AD moved the capital of Mataram kingdom to the East, around Madiun. Mataram at that time the control of the area Kedu, Bagelen, and Yogyakarta (the region surrounded the volcano Merapi from the North, West, South, and East). Eastern and Southern Region of Mount Merapi was still occupied Buddhism dynasty until the year 850, until finally falling into the local area Hindu Mataram.
Mount Merapi, an active is a means for the gods to come down to earth man. A man by the name of the Mataram kingdom will be more blessed by the gods if the royal capital near an active volcano which is always out something with bursts of clouds that make a region fertile.
Mataram territory that is still filled with dense jungle on fire destroyed it in an instant by a few weeks bursts of hot clouds of Mount Merapi. Figures show year 900. Kingdom suffered a great loss because not only the burned area, also victims among the population is large enough. Dyah Balitung decided to clear the territory of Mataram are still covered with volcanic ash for a while, thousands of people move to the east with their respective carrying supplies including livestock owned by them.
Vast and fertile plains in between the mountains Lawu and mountain Wilis, that's the Madiun area, and there the people of Mataram decided as an end in their journey to build a new capital of Mataram Kingdom. For almost thirty years they have opened new areas to climb the mountain even Wilis and arriving in a new, more fertile area again, Kediri region. King Dyah Balitung been replaced by three new king namely Daksa, Tulodong, and Wawa.
To this day residents of the area Kediri until Madiun say their ancestors came from the Hindu Mataram. It was spread around 927 people of Mataram has reached even further than the east side of Mount Wilis to reach a hill that is separated from Mount Wilis and they called hill Klothok, kolo thok, full of small animal, there kolomonggo, kolojengking, and others. Not far from the hill there Brantas river flow at the time a means of water traffic in those days.
King Empu Sindok who wants to build a strong navy to rival the royal dynasty which now sits on the island of Sumatra. And as a preparation for self defense of their attacks then the king of Mataram was decided to move the capital further from Madiun to the East again namely to the Kediri region.
One more thing that makes people's the king of Mataram and feel lucky to get a new capital in Kediri is a mountain that is very active and they christened Kelud, meaning broom clean. Kelud active is a means for the gods who descended to earth man. With the capital that are in close proximity to the place of the gods down to earth people then they will get bigger thanks to god again so as not to lose the blessings they received while still living in the area around Mount Merapi.
The eruption of Mount Merapi different Kelud, Merapi to spew hot clouds that almost a few hundred degrees Celsius, which will occur on Kelud erupts when hot lava is spewing lava and / or cold that can sweep the nearest areas in its path. And then the region will become a very fertile region as a blessing from the gods.
Furthermore Mataram government persisted until nearly a century until the rise of Darmawangsa which already has a strong naval forces and attacked the Srivijaya in 990. The attack does not make Sriwijaya subdued even turned instead to attack Kahuripan seventeen years later ended with the death of Darmawangsa in 1007. In 1006 once again occurred along the massive eruption of Merapi and it appears a warrior-god Airlangga or Erlangga so that next year the king Kahurupan law. With the attacks against the kingdom of Srivijaya -- Kahuripan which later led by the Knight-god -- then Erlangga to temporarily step aside and gather new energy in the region Wonogiri. And for a while too after the troops withdrew, the Srivijaya empire handed over power to the governor Narotama.
Erlangga who took lessons from Sriwijaya attack on his wedding day, the royal party was in progress now start planning to build the infrastructure of water traffic along the river Brantas started Kediri to the port in Surabaya. He also had time to build such a canal in the area of Porong to expedite traffic at the same time cope with floods in the region. And he created a fertile agricultural region on the side of the river Brantas.
Porong Sidoarjo region that is now being hit by disasters in the form of Lapindo mudflow in the past there were thousands of workers mobilized the people who voluntarily or not voluntary by Erlangga for the giant project. As a result now a private company with venture drilling for natural gas / oil instead damned and spawned a new disaster is very detrimental to the people in the region so that the natural state of the region returned to its original state exactly the same as in the days Erlangga -- a thousand years ago.
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