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PROBOLINGGO: Thousands of Hindu worshippers climbed an active volcano in Indonesia on Thursday (Jun 16) to throw offerings from crops to livestock down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony. Every year, people from the Tengger tribe gather from villages in the highlands around Mount

PROBOLINGGO: Thousands of Hindu worshippers climbed an active volcano in Indonesia on Thursday to throw offerings from crops to livestock down its smouldering crater in a centuries-old religious ceremony.

"Despite the pandemic, I still come up here every year bringing crops to express gratitude to the gods and the ancestors," Wawan, one of the worshippers, told AFP. It is not part of the ritual, but some members of the local population have the frugal urge not to let the offerings go to waste.The festival dates back to the 15th-century legends of the Javanese Hindu Majapahit kingdom's princess Roro Anteng and her husband.

Bambang Suprapto, head of the area's Hindu community association, said the annual ritual had to continue as it"cannot be held in another place" or virtually.

 

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