From the Jakarta Globe:
Indonesia Orders 200,000 to Evacuate as Volcano Erupts; 6 Airports Closed, Flights Through Bandung Reduced
Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians were ordered to evacuate Friday after a volcano in East Java erupted spectacularly, hurling red hot ash and rocks over a huge distance.
The alert status for Mount Kelud, considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes on densely populated Java, was raised late Thursday just hours before it began erupting.
Airport closures
"Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Adisumarmo Airport in Solo and Adisucipto Airport in Yogyakarta are closed," said National Disaster Agency (BNPB) spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. "Areas to the west of Mount Kelud including Central Java, Yogyakarta, Cilacap, Magelang, Temenggung and Boyolali are still experiencing showers of ash because last night the biggest eruption - threw sand and ash 17 kilometers into the air to the west."
And Kelud is not the only active volcano:
Earlier this month another volcano, Mount Sinabung on western Sumatra island, unleashed an enormous eruption, leaving at least 16 people dead.
Sinabung has been erupting on an almost daily basis since September, coating villages and crops with volcanic ash and forcing tens of thousands out of their homes.
No mention of the vast quantities of CO2 being released or the effect of the high-altitude ash (cooler global temperatures).
