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Thousands of displaced are arriving at Maguwoharjo stadium in central Yogyakarta by motorbike, cars and trucks.
Photo credit: Mathias Eick EU/ECHO
The Maguwoharjo stadium is now being used a shelter for thousands of displaced. Some 4 - 5,000 have already arrived. Aid agencies expect up to 10,000 to arrive her in the coming hours seeking shelter, food, water and medical attention.
Photo credit: EU/ECHO/Mathias Eick
Local volunteers help distribute food and water to the displaced.
Photo credit: Mathias Eick EU/ECHO
BAGI-BAGI MASKER - Sylvia (42) dari Poncowinatan Yogyakarta dan teman-teman dibantu warga perbatasan kabupaten Magelang dan Sleman membagi-bagikan masker kepada pelintas jalan (4/11). Udara dan jalan telah dipenuhi debu yang berasal dari semburan gunung Merapi ini mengganggu kesehatan dan sangat mempengaruhi jarak pandang pengendara kendaraan. Lebih dari 300 dos masker habis dibagikan sejak dua hari lalu di beberapa tempat. (Bipnewsroom/agussb)
Kegiatan Layar Tancep Keliling bagi Pengungsi Merapi. Hari ke-5 di sebuah bangunan sekolah TK, Desa Keji - Muntilan. (21/11/2011)
Amongst the chaos and the fear, a new life...
Volcano Merapi 5 November 2010
Photo credit: EU/ECHO/Mathias Eick
Kegiatan Layar Tancep Keliling bagi Pengungsi Merapi. Hari ke-5 di Kantor Kecamatan Prambanan. (20/11/2011)
After a harrowing night fleeing the new eruptions of the volcano, many exhausted people simply lie down and sleep amongst the chaos.
Photo Credit: Mathias Eick EU/ECHO
Mount Merapi, Gunung Merapi (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian/Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. It is located approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of the large Yogyakarta city, and thousands of people live on the flanks of the volcano, with villages as high as 1,700 metres (5,600 ft) above sea level.
Some think that the volcano is the kingdom of spirits; while visiting Merapi, people are advised not to do things that could anger the spirits, such as relieving oneself wherever one might wish.
Others believe that the volcano is guarded by spirits, whose names vary from one region to another. On the northern slopes of Merapi, for example, Mbah Petruk is the guardian. In the south, the guardian spirit is Kyai Sapujagad, who was believed to have been sent by Panembahan Senopati to guard Merapi.
Panembahan Senopati was the founder and first king of the Mataram Kingdom, which ruled Yogyakarta from the 16th century.
Other spirits are believed to live in or guard the volcano. These include Nyai Kendit and Dewi Gadung Melati.
The rituals for worshiping Merapi or the spirits, therefore, also vary from one place to another. In Selo, Boyolali, Central Java, for example, villagers hold the Sega Gunung ritual to worship Mbah Petruk.
Others do so through ordinary tumpengan rituals, during which ceremonial dishes of tumpeng (cone-shaped yellow rice), are presented and served.
Merapi's summit cone, made up by an old dome, seen from the pre-summit plateau Pasar Bubrah. Compare to the same view in 2007.
The Maguwoharjo stadium is now being used a shelter for thousands of displaced. Some 4 - 5,000 have already arrived. Aid agencies expect up to 10,000 to be sheltered here.
Photo credit: Mathias Eick EU/ECHO
Kegiatan Layar Tancep Keliling bagi Pengungsi Merapi. Hari ke-4 di Gudang Dolog Mertoyudan, Magelang. (19/11/2011)
Menyusuri - Narto (56), sedang menyusuri jalan di salah satu sudut jalan di desa Srumbung Kabupaten Magelang untuk menjaga keamanan (4/11). Desa Srumbung nampak sepi karena ditinggalkan penduduknya mengungsi. Abu vulkanik gunung Merapi yang meletus kembali, 3 November 2010 lalu telah merusak kebun-kebun salak yang menjadi sumber penghasilan penduduk Srumbung. (Bipnewsroom/agussb)