Hello November! It's actually a special month for me because I always feel beaten by facing the fact of getting older. Hehe. I am going to be a twenty-four within weeks :D
Though I am stll on my business trip to Makassar, a friendly city in the south of Sulawesi island, I heard from the weather forecast on TV it's still raining in Jakarta.. but hopefully there will be no more extreme disorder like one happened last week. My lovely country now needs your prays, friends. We undergo a series of disaster.. after those flooding in Jakarta and devastating flash flood in Wasior, Papua island, there were volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta, and an earthquake measuring 7.2 Richter scale that occurred on October 25, eventually cause a tsunami in the Mentawai Islands.
Indonesia is by far the largest and most varied archipelago country with over 17,000 islands scattered throughout its borders, located along the span between Asia and Australia. Lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a series of fault lines in the Earth's surface that is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Crossing a region of immense volcanic activity, it has some 400 volcanoes with at least 90 still active in some way, and Mount Merapi is listed as one of the most active volcanoes within Indonesia's territory.
While I write this post in the boarding lounge waiting for the flight ready back to Jakarta, the online newspaper published news of the latest Mount Merapi's eruption spewing heat clouds as high as two kilometers that went off into various directions. This one is the biggest and the most explosive compared to the first three eruptions in the previous week.
I'm helping a friend collecting donation for the lives of refugees both in the Mentawai island and Mount Merapi's slope, focused on post-disaster women and children survivors by trying to spread the news. Just contact me if you want to take part. Hope it helps.
p.s: Told by office-mates through a conversation in Skype that we somehow should prepare ourselves for more natural calamity to happen; another active volcanoes across the country, such as Krakatau, Papandayan, Galunggung and 15 active volcanoes show signs of increased activities.
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Indonesia is by far the largest and most varied archipelago country with over 17,000 islands scattered throughout its borders, located along the span between Asia and Australia. Lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a series of fault lines in the Earth's surface that is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Crossing a region of immense volcanic activity, it has some 400 volcanoes with at least 90 still active in some way, and Mount Merapi is listed as one of the most active volcanoes within Indonesia's territory.
While I write this post in the boarding lounge waiting for the flight ready back to Jakarta, the online newspaper published news of the latest Mount Merapi's eruption spewing heat clouds as high as two kilometers that went off into various directions. This one is the biggest and the most explosive compared to the first three eruptions in the previous week.
p.s: Told by office-mates through a conversation in Skype that we somehow should prepare ourselves for more natural calamity to happen; another active volcanoes across the country, such as Krakatau, Papandayan, Galunggung and 15 active volcanoes show signs of increased activities.
image source: #1, #2
7 floats:
Salam aleikum Mustika Sari,
I have also rrad from news that you have had challenging times in Indonesia theses days because of all the natural happenings almost at the same time. Maybe you have already somehow got used to it? You are in my du'as, sister!
Indonesia is definitely going through alot with the volcana eruption and the Tsunami. My dua is with the people of Indonesia.
@nadia: yes nadia, i somehow got used to hear about the natural calamity happens in here and there.. But i still cant imagine how it feels to be in that post-tragedy situation as I live in jakarta city.. Well I actually have already got used with the very bad traffic jams and pools of water throughout the city..
@blue pearl: thank you deaaar for your sincerity :) i really hope that these all will be ended without taking any more lives of indonesian people..
I feel so sorry for them!! I will pray for you and all the other Indonesian people! :)
thank you so much Fatima.. :)
innalillahi...
i feel bad about what happen in our country.
the vulcanic dust of Merapi now, has reached Bandung. and i watched at metroTV that some international airlines have closed the flight from/to Soekarno Hatta (Jakarta).
btw, how are you dear?
do you still remember me?
i think i used to follow you on twitter...
http://ndutyke.wordpress.com
@ndutyke, of course i still remember you.. and i keep on reading your blog ;)
I am fine alhamdulillah.. i've deleted my previous twitter account by mistake.. and then I make a new one.
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