ADE Surya did not evacuate. In the dark, he and his family and neighbors gathered in his living room. The thundering eruption of Mount Merapi failed to make them rush into panic evacuation. “My house wasn’t within the radius of danger,” he said when visited at Dr Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta, on Friday last week.

The fifth-semester student of Yogyakarta State University lives in Branggong hamlet, Argomulyo, Cangkringan, around 18 kilomete