Prambanan temple is a Hindu temple. This temple is a holly place for the hinduists to pray. It is located in Klaten-Surakarta. It is about 5 Km from Adi Sutjipto International Airport of Yogyakarta. There are many domestic tourists and foreign ones visit the Temple. You can look a wonderful statue in here. The temple seems more beautiful because we can see the temple with beautiful scenery of MerapiMountain in the west of this temple. We can also buy many interest handicraft from Jogja and Solo because there many shops which sell it on around this place.
Prambanan temple has a specific shape. It is high and sharp at the top. Javanese people call prambananTemple as a RoroJonggrongTemple as its famous legend in Indonesia especially in Java. Roro Jonggrang was a daughter of a great King Baka. So.. She was a princess.
One day, King Baka and his kingdom was rebelled by his enemy called Bandung Bandawasa. Unfortunately he was defeated. He was killed by Bandung Bandawasa. Bandung Bandawasa conqured the Baka’s Kingdom. When Bandung Bandawasa knew that Baka had a beautifull princess, he felt in love and asked her to marry him. Roro jonggrang accepted with one condition. She asked Bandung Bandawasa to built a thousands statues in one night. Bandung Bandawasa was a powerful man. He accepts her condition. With the help of evils, he almost fulfilled the Roro Jonggrang’s proposal. Roro Jonggrang started to worry about that. Her servants advised her to do something. She ordered her people to hit the wooden rice grinders signed that the morning came. Bandung was annoyed. He knew that Roro Jonggrang was cheating. Angrily, he cursed her to become his thousands statue.
