Juru kunci

Juru kunci are the custodians of graveyards and other sites considered sacred in Java, Indonesia.

A notable exception from graveyards is the juru kunci who maintain a presence on the side of volcanoes such as Mbah Maridjan.

When the graveyard has royal patronage (e.g. Yogyakarta or Surakartan) the juru kunci is given a name, status, and a very limited honorarium and is part of an extensive network of guardians over ancestral and sacred graves.

The mission and philosophy of juru kunci is to lock all bad secrets and take care of all good things to make harmony between the community, tradition, and nature.

Among football fans, teams who stayed at the bottom rank are also jokingly called juru kunci.