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Human activity continues in Mt. Agung's danger zone
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(JP/I Wayan Juniarta)
D
espite warnings from the authorities to vacate the danger zone within 12 kilometers of Mount Agung, dozens of people are still conducting activities inside the zone.
During a trip on Thursday across villages in the danger zone, The Jakarta Post spotted several people, mostly adult males, cutting and transporting grass in Muncan and Peringsari villages. They said the grass was fodder for their livestock.
"We return to the village during the day to check up on our houses and feed our cattle. In the afternoon we go back to the evacuee shelters," a villager named Made Kawi told the Post.
In the adjacent village of Sogra, all the houses had been vacated and locked with only dogs seen roaming the streets.
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Most of the massive sand and stones quarries in Sebudi, a village that lies well within the 9-kilometer highest-danger zone, were already deserted but several stone-cutting workshops still open. In one workshop, a group of nine workers was busy loading stones onto a pickup truck.
"We are transporting the stone materials to Gianyar and will leave the village in the afternoon," a worker said.
In Jangu hamlet at Duda, a village directly outside the perimeter of the danger zone, scores of adult males remained in the hamlet while most of its 150 families had already been evacuated to shelters in Sidemen Valley.
"We are tasked with guarding the hamlet. I don’t think the hamlet will be impacted by the eruption because in the 1963 eruption it was spared from the lava," Made Tanu, 64, who witnessed the last eruption, said.
