JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian artist is selling tourist souvenirs of ash from the country’s most volatile volcano to raise money for victims of its eruptions.
The English-language daily The Jakarta Globe reported Monday that Agus Budi Setiawan is selling volcano souvenirs – small clear bottles containing volcanic ash – for $1 per bottle.
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Indonesian scientists have downgraded the alert status of Mount Merapi from its highest level after it killed more than 320 people in a series of violent eruptions that started in late October.
“The decision was taken this morning at 9:00am (local time) as its eruption activities continue to slow down,” the head of the vulcanology office in Yogyakarta, Subandrio, said.
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(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Indonesians who fled their homes to escape an erupting volcano have been offered the chance to start anew on a less populated island, authorities said on Tuesday.
Around 60,000 people are living in temporary shelter on densely populated Java island after Mount Merapi Volcano erupted last month and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes while destroying crops, buildings, roads and bridges.
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Yogyakarta. Hundreds of people in Indonesia have fled their homes to escape fast-moving mudflows streaming down the slopes of the country’s most volatile volcano.
Disaster official Slamet Sugiono says those affected live along the banks of the Code River, which flows from Mount Merapi into the heart of Yogyakarta, a bustling city 20 miles (30 kilometers) away.
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Jakarta. A smoking volcano on Indonesia’s main island of Java has forced the closure of a local airport.
Mount Bromo came back to life last week after a yearlong lull, unleashing a powerful blast of volcanic debris but causing no injuries or serious damage.
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Indonesia has issued a “red alert” for an eruption at Mount Bromo volcano in eastern Java, less than a month after Mount Merapi volcano killed more than 300 people.
“We raised the status of Bromo to the highest red-alert level at 3:30pm (local time) today. There’s a chance of an eruption soon,” government vulcanologist Surono told AFP.
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Residents in villages on the slopes of Mt. Merapi have reported that the volcano spewed out hot gas clouds Monday night.
Several residents said they had heard an explosion Monday evening, and later at around 10 p.m. they saw hot gas clouds rolling down the mountain, a villager said as quoted by Antara newswire.
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MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) – The number of deaths caused by recent eruptions at Indonesia’s most volatile volcano has risen to 304.
Slamet Sugiono from the National Disaster Management Agency said Sunday the toll climbed after some victims succumbed to severe burns and illnesses linked to the eruption. Also, more ash-buried bodies have been found on the slopes of Mount Merapi.
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SERANG: Mount Anak Krakatau saw 72 eruptions on Thursday, one eruption more compared to the previous day which saw 71, the monitoring post reported Friday.
“The status is still at level II or caution status,” the post was quoted by Antara as saying. The statuses for volcanos are: normal, caution, alert and danger.
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Indonesia’s Yogyakarta airport, which had been closed for about two weeks by the eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano, has reopened for operations, officials said.
Merapi, which means “Mountain of Fire”, has killed 283 people since it began erupting last month and more than 270,000 are still living in temporary shelters.
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Rivers of mud and rocks, and clouds of hot ash, have devastated farmland in Central Java, Indonesia.
The region is short of fruit and vegetables, after a month of eruptions from Mount Merapi volcano.
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Yogyakarta. The government has started to purchase livestock from residents forced to evacuate from the slopes of the erupting Mount Merapi.
Mujilan, a resident of Hargobinangun village, in the Pakem subdistrict of Sleman in Yogyakarta, on Thursday became the first cattle owner to sell his cows to the government.
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Yogyakarta. Thousands of families returned to their villages on Monday even as scientists warned that Mount Merapi remained a threat and more bodies were found buried in the ash.
Carrying their belongings on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, more than 30,000 people left shelters after the government reduced the size of the exclusion zone around the volcano in some districts.
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Rescuers digging through several feet (a meter) of ash discovered nine more bodies on the slopes of Mount Merapi, whose explosive eruption a week ago buried whole villages.
As confirmation of more deaths trickled in Sunday, the toll from a series of blasts at the Indonesian volcano rose to at least 250.
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Jakarta. Despite being advised by volunteers not to do so, evacuees in Boyolali and Klaten, Central Java, left the evacuation shelters after Mount Merapi showed a decrease in activity.
About 600 evacuees left two shelters in Boyolali on Friday to return to their homes in the Selo and Cepogo subdistricts.
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HUNDREDS of Qantas and Jetstar passengers are facing delays after services between Australia and Indonesia were disrupted by ash spewing from the nation’s most active volcano.
Qantas cancelled a Sydney-Jakarta return service due to the Mount Merapi volcano, which has killed 191 people since it began erupting late last month, emitting ash and heat clouds.
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