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Werdi, Devotion of A Temple Worker

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Regina Rukmorini/Megandika Wicaksono
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KOMPAS/MEGANDIKA WICAKSONO

Werdi

Heart and the senses are a mantra for Werdi, 64, a stonemason who works in in temple reconstruction. He devoted more than half of his life to restoring the stone blocks of Borobudur Temple to their rightful place. His long experience has made the junior high school graduate a source of learning among graduate and post-graduate students studying Borobudur conservation.

Restoring the temple’s stone blocks has been Werdi’s life work. Like a jigsaw puzzle, placing one piece wrong means an unsolvable puzzle. In the case of Borobudur, there is no blueprint for the thousands of stone blocks that were used to build it.

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