Villagers living near Indonesia’s Mount Kelud volcano in East Java province are bracing for a possible eruption.
News reports Sunday said many people have evacuated their homes near the mountain, which has shown signs of increasing activity in recent days. Locals are relying on dams in area water sources to protect their homes from lava, floods, and the flow of debris.
A 1919 eruption killed some 5,000 people, mostly by mudflow. The most recent eruption was in 1990.
Source: http://www.voanews.com
October 8th, 2007
Last month,The Jakarta Post was invited to see the release of six Javanese lutung (black or gray long-tailed monkey) or Trachipitecus auratus to their natural habitat.
The conservation NGO ProFauna Indonesia released the primates to the Hyang conservation located on the foothills of Mountain Argopuro, which is near the border of Probolinggo and Jember in East Java.
The six primates were confiscated by the Forestry Ministry’s conservation center from various illegal owners and sellers in several areas, such as Denpasar in Bali, Probolinggo in East Java and Yogyakarta.
The long-tailed monkeys went through rehabilitation before their release. Local and foreign activists from ProFauna wrote down their health progress and created temporary housing in treetops for adaptation.
– Indra Harsaputra/ The Jakarta Post
Source: The Jakarta Post
October 8th, 2007