Indonesia’s Semeru volcano erupts spewing hot clouds days after deadly earthquake

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash and smoke more than 5 kilometres into the sky above Java, just days after 49 people were killed in a deadly earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

No evacuation orders have been issued so far on Java, the country’s most densely populated island, but the National Disaster Mitigation Agency warned villagers living on the mountain’s slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.

Agency spokesperson Raditya Jati said people around the river basin on…