Jakarta: The Indonesian authorities raise the level of standby to the highest volcano in the island of Java, said Mount Semeru can explode again after the eruption suddenly earlier this month made 48 dead and 36 people disappeared in the villages buried in the mud layer.
The Indonesian Geology Agency said on Saturday, he took an increasing activity) mountain.
About 8 million cubic meters (282 million cubic feet) sand from volcanic crater which clogs the river by Kobokan, which is on the path of the flow of lava, energy and mineral resources of Minister Arifin Tasrif.
“As a result, if there is another eruption, it will block the flow path and create a new lava flow that spreads to the surrounding area,” said Tasrif, added that the government had established a new danger map and urged people to obey it.
This lifts the warning level to the second highest.
Head of the Indonesian Geological Volcanology Mitigation and Danger Mitigation Center, Andiani, said the villagers who lived on the Semeru fertile slopes were recommended to stay 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the mouth of the crater.
He also stopped tourism and mining activities along the Das Besuk Kobokan.
Search and rescue operations ended on Friday with 36 people still not counted.
More than 100 people were injured, 22 of them with serious burns.
More than 5,200 houses and damaged buildings, said spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency Abdul Muhari.
After visiting the area last week, President Joko Widodo promised to rebuild infrastructure, including the main bridge that connected the worst city of Lumajang to other cities, and moved around 2,970 houses from the danger zone.
Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted many times in the last 200 years.
However, because in many of the 129 volcanoes monitored in Indonesia, tens of thousands of people live on the fertile slopes.
Last erupted in January, without victims.
Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 270 million people, is susceptible to earthquakes and volcanic activities because they sit along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a series of fault lines in the form of horseshoe.