President departs for NTT to observe disaster mitigation efforts 5 hours ago
President Joko Widodo departed for East Nusa Tenggara on Friday (April 9) to ensure disaster mitigation efforts run well. ANTARA/Presidential Secretariat Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo, on Friday morning, departed for East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province that was hit by flash floods early this week to ensure that disaster mitigation efforts are running smoothly.
The president and his entourage departed from the Halim Perdanakusuma Airbase in East Jakarta at 6 a.m. local time aboard the Presidential Aircraft Indonesia-1 and are scheduled to land at the Frans Seda Airport in Sikka District, East Nusa Tenggara.
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Mount Merapi. ANTARA FOTO/Hendra Nurdiyansyah/hp. (.) Indonesia has the largest number and highest density of active volcanoes worldwide, as the country lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped region of convergent tectonic plates and several volcanoes.
There are 147 volcanoes in Indonesia, of which 130 are active, spread along the islands of Sumatra, Sulawesi, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, and Maluku.
The archipelagic country has a population of some 271 million and some 17 thousand islands located between the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
On account of the large number of active volcanoes in the country, experts affirm that over 197 million Indonesians are living within 100 kilometers of a volcano, with nine million of them being within just 10 kilometers.