Indonesia volcano eruption leaves 270,000 stranded as airports extend closure

Some 270,000 passengers have been left stranded across Indonesia after a volcanic eruption grounded more than 2,000 flights and forced airports to suspend operations for a second day.

• Volcano eruption leaves 170,000 passengers stranded in IndonesiaPublished18 hours ago.

Publicado em 7 de setembro de 2026, 06:20 BST.

Figure caption, Watch: Lava fountain and ash cloud as Indonesia volcano erupts.

Anak Krakatau, localizado a 150 km (90 mi) de Jacarta, começou a erupcionar no final da sexta‑feira, produzindo fontes de lava e enviando cinzas vulcânicas para a capital e a província de Lampung.

It stayed seismically active throughout the weekend.

Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International and three other airports have extended closures till 18:00 local time on Monday after volcanic ash was detected in airspaces near them.

Schools in the region moved classes online while some shipping operations were also disrupted.

Snaking queues formed at the departure halls in Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Monday as stranded passengers sought refunds and tried to get updates on when they would be able to fly.

Finna, que deveria voar de volta para Jacarta a partir de Malang, uma cidade na Java Oriental, na manhã de domingo, descreveu a frenesi no aeroporto enquanto os voos eram repetidamente reagendados.

It was very crowded because passengers from the morning flights had piled up, while those scheduled for later departures still didn't know what would happen," the 46-year-old told BBC Indonesian.

We were all glued to the flight information screens.

Não querendo lidar com a incerteza, Finna acabou passando a noite em dois trens intermunicipais antes de chegar em Jacarta às 03:00 na segunda-feira.

Everyone seems to be racking their brains [figuring alternative transportation options]", said Jo Shaw, who was visiting Indonesia with members of her conservation charity Save the Rhino International.

Shaw's team had axed their plans to camp out at Java's Ujung Kulon National Park after authorities raised its alert level for the Anak Krakatau volcano.

Estar preso em um hotel de aeroporto é um incômodo relativamente menor que deve ser resolvido em poucos dias, esperamos," disse Shaw, acrescentando que ela estava mais preocupada com as equipes que trabalham no solo com os rinocerontes sob tais condições ambientais.

A newly wed Malaysian couple who had just spent a week in Bali said they were told that the next flight back to Kuala Lumpur wouldn't be until 11 September.

What are we going to do here for another five days? We only prepared enough money for our honeymoon and [were supposed] to go home yesterday," Amir Hamzah told Malaysia's national news agency Bernama.

We thought we would just sleep at the airport for a few hours and then take the morning flight home [on Monday]. We never thought we would end up being stuck here for days," the 29-year-old said.

Na segunda-feira, a Agência Geológica da Indonésia alertou que "a probabilidade de novas erupções nos próximos períodos permanece alta.

Volcanic ash reached as high as 6,000m on the Java side of the volcano and 15,000m on the Sumatra side and in some parts of Java's westernmost province Banten, the meteorological agency BMKG said.

Anak Krakatau sits on the Sunda Strait about midway between the islands of Java and Sumatra.

A erupção mais recente ocorreu às 20h23 no domingo, segundo a agência.

We ‌cannot ascertain when this ‌will end due to the dynamic weather," Transport Minister Dudy Purwagandhi said in relation to the temporary closures of the affected airports.

Dudy disse no domingo que as autoridades em todos os aeroportos têm realizado testes a cada 30 minutos "para antecipar se a dispersão de cinzas está se ampliando ou diminuindo.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International and three other airports have extended closures till 18:00 on Monday.

Authorities have warned against approaching or engaging in activities within a 3km radius from the active crater, while ships passing through the Sunda Strait have also been prohibited from entering an exclusion zone of 3km radius from it.

Authorities have also confirmed there is no tsunami warning linked to the recent activity of the volcano.

Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Krakatoa, has been sporadically active since it emerged from the sea at the beginning of last century in the caldera formed after the 1883 eruption of Mount Krakatoa.

O vulcão entrou em colapso em dezembro de 2018, desencadeando um enorme tsunami que matou mais de 400 pessoas, e deslocou e feriu milhares de outras nas costas próximas de Sumatra e Java.

Scientists found that some of the chunks of rock that slid from the volcano when it collapsed were about 70-90m high.

O Círculo de Fogo do Pacífico refere-se a uma série de vulcões, locais de terremotos e placas tectônicas ao redor do Pacífico. Ele se estende por 40. 000 km (25.

000 milhas) desde a ponta sul da América do Sul até a Nova Zelândia.

Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur along the area and the ring is dotted with 75% of all active volcanoes on Earth, that's 452 individual active volcanoes.

With reporting by Farida Susanty in Jakarta and Koh Ewe in Singapore.

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• Anak Krakatau, localizado a 150 km (90 mi) de Jacarta, começou a erupcionar no final
• Authorities have warned against approaching or engaging in activities within a 3km radius from the active crater, while ships passin
• G through the Sunda Strait have also been prohibited from entering an exclusion zone of 3km radius from it