{"id":417556,"date":"2026-05-08T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:41:08","slug":"mount-dukono-rescuers-search-for-20-hikers-missing-after-indonesian-volcano-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417556\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Dukono: Rescuers search for 20 hikers missing after Indonesian volcano eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How active is Mount Dukono?published at 07:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>07:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The volcano seen behind a body of water and ships\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a65dde20-978a-4d62-9709-51aeb508bd74.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1023\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mount Dukono has erupted nearly 200 times since late March, according to the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s currently listed at Level Two out of the agency&#8217;s three-tier volcano alert system, which indicates increased activity and a need for caution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, the volcano erupted while a group of hikers was trekking nearby. The moment of chaos, as a hiking guide urged others to head upwards, was captured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChannelNewsAsia\/videos\/when-a-volcano-erupts-metres-away-do-you-run-or-staya-group-of-hikers-faced-that\/985280720521949\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video that later went viral., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Volcanological Survey of Indonesia said in a statement that since December 2024 it has recommended tourists and climbers to refrain from activities within a 4km (2.5mi) radius of Mount Dukono&#8217;s main crater, where there are threats of ejected rocks, ash and lava.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stil, that has not deterred hikers from heading up the 1,335m-tall mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How active is Mount Dukono?published at 07:34 BST 07:34 BST Image source, AFP via Getty Images Mount Dukono&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-417556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}