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Children's drawings on painted plywood walls in a refugee site recall memories of life before tonnes of hot mud had suddenly swallowed their villages, forcing their families to relocate to a marketspace just minutes away from the source of the mud volcano. Since last year mud has been flowing out of a drilling site in East Java, swamping 800 hectares of homes, agricultural plots and factories, displacing 150,000.
Kota Malang, East Java, Indonesia.
Ijen Boulevard.
"Lagerstroemia (Bungor, crape-myrtle), a Lythraceae planted in front of the regency's public library along Injen Boulevard."
Ijen Boulevard is a two km stretch enclave, once an elite complex during the Dutch colonial era. The spacious street is well tended and landscaped against a backdrop of old colonial buildings.