Mount Merapi ($116 million). Following the 2010 eruption, three Indonesian government departments declared a prohibited zone which nobody can permanently stay and no infrastructure is allowed in 9 villages (dusun): Palemsari, Pangukrejo, Kaliadem, Jambu, Kopeng, Petung, Kalitengah Lor, Kalitengah Kidul and Srunen, all in Cangkringan district. In 2004 an area of 6,410 hectares around Mount Merapi was established as a national park. The decision of the Ministry of Forestry to declare the park has been subsequently challenged in court by The Indonesian Forum for Environment, on grounds of lack of consultation with local residents. During the 2006 eruption of the volcano it
Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey The Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey is a series of five documentary films following the decade-long Wanderjahr of the filmmaker/sibling partnership Lorne and Lawrence Blair. With financing from investors including the BBC and Ringo Starr, the Blair Brothers arrived in Indonesia from England in 1972. Then the Indonesian archipelago offered isolation for neolithic cultures and their indigenous beliefs. The Blair Brothers spent over two decades documenting the relationships of island ecology and their peoples. One result of the Blair's work was a PBS-distributed multi-media package- an oversized picture book, alongside the Emmy-nominated BBC/PBS