JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities ordered people living near a volcano to leave their homes on Friday and a major city closed its airport after the 5,500 metre (18,000 ft) peak sent a column ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) -A volcano erupted in Indonesia on Sunday spewing a cloud of ash 15 km into the sky and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people, authorities said, as they issued their highest ...

Mount Merapi, also called the Mount Fuji of Java. (Photo courtesy of Mount Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefectural Government) Researchers at a Mount Fuji research institute are to begin ...

Mount Merapi on the main island of Java rumbled as heavy rain fell around its cloud-covered crater, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, disaster mitigation agency spokesman. The volcano unleashed a column of ...

On November 19, 2025, Mount Semeru, the tallest volcano in Java, erupted violently at 4:00 PM local time. The eruption sent a massive column of ash shooting two kilometers into the sky and created ...

JAKARTA — Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they had helped more than 170 climbers caught by Mount Semeru’s sudden eruption a day earlier to return to safety as the seismic activity of the ...

A volcano on Indonesia's main island of Java erupted Wednesday, throwing ash and gas kilometres into the sky and forcing officials to raise the alert status to its highest level. Mount Semeru in ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The death toll from a volcanic eruption Saturday on Indonesia's main island of Java has risen to 13, the country's disaster agency said Sunday. National Disaster Mitigation Agency ...