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A woman carrying her child and a small bag of personal possessions arrives at the Maguwoharjo stadium in Yogyakarta.
Photo Credit: Mathias Eick EU/ECHO
Senjata pamungkas Onie. Campuran air, minyak tanah, cabe, garam. Siap untuk bela diri secara di Gunung Merbabu dan Merapi ini sedang rawan perampokan.
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.
Smoke can be seen emerging from the mountaintop at least 300 days a year, and several eruptions have caused fatalities. Pyroclastic flow from a large explosion killed 27 people on 22 November in 1994, mostly in the town of Muntilan, west of the volcano. Another large eruption occurred in 2006, shortly before the Yogyakarta earthquake. In light of the hazards that Merapi poses to populated areas, it has been designated as one of the Decade Volcanoes.
The destruction of the mudflow from the eruption of Merapi vulcano, autumn 2010. This is now turned into a resource, the ashes are sold, and the site has become a tourist attraction