Ring of fire. That is what Indonesia is known as on the geological map of the world. How can it be otherwise as 30 percent of the world’s volcanoes are found in Indonesia. As a result, the soil in this country is fertile and fine but the land is also prone to disasters.

Records of volcanoes in the world show that of 10 major eruptions claiming over 211,000 lives, two occurred in Indonesia. The two were the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, w