AUSTRALIA NEWS
By Chris Pritchard
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| The Prambanan ruins. Picture: Mrskyce/Flickr |
INDONESIA---Beneath a thick South-East Asian jungle canopy lie enormous ruins, even more impressive than others already on display. That, at any rate, is what some archaeologists and other experts believe. An opposing view is that this is wishful thinking - and that, rather than subscribing to what a guide calls "buried treasure fantasies", we should savour the awesome complexes that have already been restored. I'm in the world's most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia - where, on the outskirts of the teeming Javanese city of Yogyakarta, not one but two spectacular sets of ancient ruins attract tourists in growing numbers. What's more, neither set of ruins is Islamic: one is Buddhist, the other Hindu.
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| Borobudur temple is a huge sacred Buddhist site. Picture: Supplied |
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