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Mount Merapi, colour lithograph, Junghuhn and Mieling, 1853–1854. Mount Merapi (Javanese: ꦒꦸꦤꦸꦁ ꦩꦼꦫꦥꦶ, romanized: gunung měrapi, Indonesian: Gunung Merapi, lit. 'Fire Mountain') is an active stratovolcano located on the border between the province of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the ...
A Merapi Response Radio 100.2 FM "talk show" presented the Yogyakarta Governor, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, the head of the BNPB, Dr. Syamsul Maarif, and chief of the PVMBG, Dr. Surono on evening of 11 November. A media center and a call center were also established to attempt to assist in bridging an information gap related to information on ...
View of Mount Merapi The Special Region is located near the southern coast of Java, surrounded on three sides by the province of Central Java , and with the Indian Ocean on the south side. The population at the 2010 Census was 3,457,491 people, [ 15 ] which then increased to 3,668,719 at the 2020 Census; [ 16 ] the official estimate for mid ...
This is a list of the Indonesian provinces by highest point, including DKI Jakarta.The highest point in Indonesia is Puncak Jaya, in Central Papua, at 4,884 metres (16,024 feet), which ranks the country as 28th by highest point [citation needed].
As the most active complex volcano in West Sumatra province, and in proximity to populated areas, Mount Marapi is a significant hazard. [5] Since 2011, the volcano has been at the level II (Waspada) of a four-tier alert system set up by the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia. [6]
Mount Merbabu (Indonesian: Gunung Merbabu) is a dormant stratovolcano in Central Java province on the Indonesian island of Java.The name Merbabu could be loosely translated as 'Mountain of Ash' from the Javanese combined words; Meru means "mountain" and awu or abu means "ash".
Altogether, eleven densely populated districts comprising 8.3 million people were affected, but the regencies of Bantul, Sleman, Gunung Kidul, Kulon Progo, Klaten, and the city of Yogyakarta were especially hard hit. More than 5,700 people were killed in the early morning shock, with tens of thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands made ...
426 Battalion personnel consisted of former members of Hizbullah and Sabilillah in Surakarta. These former Hezbollah members sympathized with the Darul Islam movement. They helped the DI/TII movement by supplying weapons when they were stationed in Demak and involved in the operation to eradicate the disruptive troops at the Merapi Merbabu Complex. [2]