Susyono was troubled by his dream.

In it, he had been doing what he often did - scanning a riverbed for rocks that would be suitable to sell to local builders.

It was not a glamorous way to earn a living, but it paid more than his normal job growing tomatoes and cabbages.

In the dream a man approached him.

 An old man with white hair, white beard and white clothes showed up. He said he wanted to give me a giant golden puppet.”

Earlier that day, before his dream, in May 2011, Susyono had been bemoaning his lot.

Work was hard and poorly paid, but there were few other options in the mountains of Buru, the remote Indonesian island where he lived.

He had wished that something good would happen to him. But somehow the offer of the golden puppet scared him.

 I didn't take the puppet because I was afraid. The man said I had to give him something in return.”

When he woke, Susyono puzzled over the dream.

What did it mean? He told his friend Yono about it.

They had seen television reports of gold being found elsewhere in Indonesia and wondered if it could exist close to home - on Botak, the mountain where they lived.

“We thought the dream must mean there was gold in the mountain,” he says.