District, Karanganyar Regency, Central Java. This temple is considered controversial because of its unusual shape and because of the explicit depiction of human genitalia on some of its figures. The site of the Sukuh temple was first reported during British rule in Java in 1815 by Johnson, Resident of Surakarta. Johnson at that time was assigned by Thomas Stanford Raffles to collect data to write his book The History of Java. After the reign of Great Britain passed, in 1842, Van der Vlis, a Dutch archaeologist, conducted research. The first restoration began in 1928