Yati still remembers the message from Mama Marcelina Anone. At that time, Mama Salin, Marcelina’s nickname, was lying helplessly on a bed in one corner of the lopo, or round house. The woman had been sick with a cough and shortness of breath for over a week. Her condition was getting worse over time.
“You must guard the stone; otherwise, you will move and become a stranger in other people’s eyes." In November, two days after her message, the woman she called an aunt passed away.
Mama Salin was only sick for two weeks. Precisely since she tried to stop the drilling machine used by PT. Teja Sekawan’s employees to split the Ob stone, or Ob stone in Kuanoel village."