A beautiful UNESCO cover from Indonesia, depicting a miniature sheet issued in 2014, celebrating 200 years of Borobudur Temple. Borobudur Temple Compounds is the World Heritage designation of the area of three Buddhist temples in Central Java, Indonesia. It comprises Borobudur, Mendut and Pawon. The temples were built during the Shailendra Dynasty around the 8th and 9th centuries CE. Approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Yogyakarta, Borobudur sits on a plateau between two twin volcanoes, Sundoro-Sumbing and Merbabu-Merapi, and two rivers, the Progo and the Elo. According to local myth, the area known as Kedu Plain is a Javanese sacred place and has been dubbed 'the garden of Java' due to its high agricultural fertility. Borobudur is inscribed as an UNESCO World Heritage place since 1991.
