{"id":48959,"date":"2026-06-05T12:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48959"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:56:43","slug":"indonesia-volcano-erupts-forcing-airport-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/indonesia-volcano-erupts-forcing-airport-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia volcano erupts, forcing airport to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A highly active volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted several times on Friday, spewing towering ash columns into the sky and forcing a local airport to close, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores Island erupted at 11:15 am (0315 GMT), sending volcanic material 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) into the air, the national volcanology agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It came after several other eruptions earlier on Friday.\u00a0Lewotobi Laki-Laki falls under Indonesia&#8217;s second-highest alert level for volcanic activity, with a five-kilometre exclusion zone in force around its crater.<\/p>\n<p>The volcanology agency said residents near rivers should also remain on alert for hazardous floods of volcanic material, known as lahar, if heavy rain occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have suspended operations at a local airport in the town of Maumere, about 60 kilometres west of Lewotobi Laki-Laki, affecting five domestic flights, airport head Partahian Panjaitan told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Laki-Laki means &#8220;man&#8221; in Indonesian, and the 1,584-metre (5,197-foot) volcano is twinned with a calmer 1,703-metre one named Perempuan after the Indonesian word for &#8220;woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, Lewotobi Laki-Laki spewed a colossal 18-kilometre tower of ash, forcing the cancellation of 24 flights at the international airport on the resort island of Bali.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation, experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity due to its position on the Pacific &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly active volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted several times on Friday, spewing towering ash columns into the sky and forcing a local airport to close, authorities said. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores Island erupted at 11:15 am (0315 GMT), sending volcanic material 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) into the air, the national volcanology agency said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48961,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions\/48961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}