Mbah Maridjan, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Mbah Maridjan

Guardian of Mount Merapi

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1927

Date of Death: 26-Oct-2010

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mas Penewu Surakso Hargo, better known as Mbah Maridjan ("Grandfather Maridjan") (5 February 1927? – 26 October 2010) was the spiritual guardian or "gatekeeper" of the Indonesian volcano Mount Merapi.
His birthplace was in the mountainside hamlet (Javanese language-dukuh) of Kinahrejo, Umbulharjo Village, Cangkringan District, of the Sleman Regency, on the island of Java in Indonesia. He was killed at the age of 83 by a pyroclastic flow that destroyed his home in the village of Kinahrejo during the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi.