Dieng Plateau "Abode of the Gods"

Dieng Plateu, is a marshy plateau that forms the floor of a caldera complex on the Dieng active volcano complex near Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia. Referred to as "Dieng" by Indonesians, it sits at 2,000m above sea level far from major population centres. The name "Dieng" comes from Di Hyang which means "Abode of the Gods".
Dieng is an active volcanic area and it can be said is a giant volcano. Crater craters are often found there. The average altitude is about 2,000 m. above sea level. Dieng cool temperatures in winter approached, ranging from 15-20 ° C in the daytime and 10 ° C at night. In the dry season (July and August), air temperature can sometimes reach 0 ° C in the morning and bring frost by the locals who called the poison bun ("dew poison") because it causes damage to agricultural crops.
Part of General Sudirman's guerilla campaign during Indonesian War of Independence took place in the area.

Temples

The Plateau is the location eight small Hindu temples. Built around 750 CE, they are the oldest known standing stone structures in Java. They are originally thought to have numbered 400 but only 8 remain.
Dieng's misty location almost 2000 m above sea level, its poisonous effusions and sulphur-coloured lakes make it a particularly auspicious place for religious tribute. The temples are small shrines built as monuments to the god-ancestors and dedicated to Shiva. The Hindu shrines are miniature cosmic mountains based on plans in Indian religious texts, although the design motifs that have little connection to India. The earliest architectural usage of the Javanese demonic masks and marine monsters are exhibited along the niches and doorways of the remaining structures. The Dieng structures were small and relatively plain, but stone architecture developed substantially in only a matter of decades resulting in masterpieces such as the Prambanan complex and Borobudur.

Geology
Dieng Plateau is a plateau with volcanic activity below the surface, such as Yellowstone or the Tengger Highlands. Indeed he is a caldera in the surrounding mountains as the edges. There are many craters as the discharge gas, water vapor and various other volcanic material. The situation is very dangerous for the people who inhabit the region, as evidenced by the catastrophic gas explosion crater Sinila 1979. Not only poison gas, but also to possible earthquakes, mud eruptions, landslides and floods.

Apart from the crater, there are also volcanic lakes that contain water mixed with sulfur and thus have distinctive yellow-green color.

In biology, volcanic activity at Dieng interesting because it is found in hot waters near the crater of some species of thermophilic bacteria ("like it hot") that can be used to expose early life on Earth.

Upstream or upland area is an important area as a place of sanitation or conservation of water sources that can be maintained through absorption forest fertile springs, a huge benefit and can be used by residents sekiitar until the existing population in the downstream (low land), not even utilize only a human being but a lush forest conditions useful for biotic life and other creatures.

Wonosobo and Banjarnegara is an area which many found even mountainous plateau in this case the objective observation of various circles, because Dieng is one of the springs to the Serayu river by the people of Wonosobo used as a source of livelihood, therefore considering the condition of forest Dieng plateau around the experience of extinction, then step jungle captivity until the rehabilitation phase as a water catchment area should be seriously pursued and preserved by the community.

The second background Natural revitalization measures in the vicinity of the Dieng plateau, given the levels of Hydrogen (Water), which is polluted by chemical substances that endanger the rest of the drugs used by farmers, it is once again very important in stressing that the benefits of forests can menseterilkan and maintain levels of Hydrogen for not contaminated by hazardous substances that once brought by drug growers. As a description of the simulation of forest plant roots to absorb and hold rainwater and release the results of sweat through the roots of forest plants so that soil conditions remain setabil. Conversely if there is no forest plants that hold rainwater then the soil food juices that are beneficial to the farmers will carry over water flowing down that could result in flooding and landslides, because soil conditions are very unstable.

The minimal level of public awareness, it makes the operation of the weak side, it is not uncommon to lose a lot of timber forests (illegal logging), the level of low public awareness about forest Wonosobo, knowledge about the benefits hutanpun little is know about it, but a lot of benefit from forest (starting from a place of recreation, cultivation of rare flora and fauna, as well as other benefits as raw material for the needs of local communities), and a lot of forest land eroded by agriculture. at least indirectly from one plant forest tree means saving a human life until the future.