JAKARTA: Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted on Wednesday (March 26), spewing hot lava and a towering column of smoke and ash 1,000m into the sky, an official said.

The area around Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines was still under evacuation orders from an eruption in December​.

JAKARTA, March 21 (Reuters ... Indonesia has close to 130 active volcanoes and sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an area of high seismic activity atop various tectonic plates.

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends ... 3 km from the mountain summit and refrain from camping overnight near the volcano’s crater and calderas." Thursday's eruption was Mount ...

Indonesian authorities reopened an international airport near a volcano ... washed away volcanic ash covering the tarmac. Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, has 120 active volcanoes.