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Gunung Anak Krakatau Erupsi. Warga Dengar Suara Dentuman

Warga mendengar suara dentuman terdengar di Tangerang, Provinsi Banten. Sementara itu stasiun pemantauan juga merekam aktivitas erupsi Anak Krakatau sekitar pukul 21.58, Waktu Indonesia Barat, 10 April 2020. Adanya erupsi tercatat di seismogram yang  terjadi selama 72 detik dengan amplitudo maksimum 40 mm. Laman cnnindonesia.com melaporkan bahwa ketinggian kolom abu disebut 357 m di atas permukaan laut. Debu vulkanis pada letusan ini bergerak ke arah selatan. 

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Rekaman erupsi Gunung Anak Krakatau (bantennews.co.id)

Sementara itu medcom.id mengabarkan cuitan warganet yang ditujukan kepada akun resmi Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) yang ditulis akun Twitter @nidandh, "Tangerang berasa (dentuman letusan Gunung Anak Krakatau)," tulis akun Twitter @nidandh pada Sabtu, 11 April 2020.
 
Penyataan yang sama dicuitkan pula oleh akun Twitter @shirisma. Dia melaporkan di wilayah Tangerang Selatan (Tangsel) pun terdengar dentuman serupa.


Dikutip dari newsdetik.com tyaitu Magma Kementerian ESDM, letusan Gunung Anak Krakatau terjadi pada Jumat (10/4/2020) malam, bahwa erupsi atau letusan pertama terjadi pukul 21.58 WIB, "Terjadi erupsi G. Anak Krakatau pada hari Jumat, 10 April 2020, pukul 21.58 WIB dengan tinggi kolom abu teramati ± 200 m di atas puncak (± 357 m di atas permukaan laut)
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Rekaman lain erupsi Gunung Anak Krakatau (news.detik.com)

Belum ada kabar apakah terjadi dampak lain dari erupsi Anak Krakatau tersebut. Sejarah mencatat bahwa Gunung Krakatau pernah meletus sangat dahsyat pada tahun 1883. Letusan gunung yang terletak di Selat Sunda, antara Pulau Jawa dan Sumatera, Indonesia ini terdengar sampai jauh ke luar negeri.  

Situs kompas.com juga mengutip cuitan akun @debsnaynay melaporkan jika ia di Bogor mendengar dentuman aneh seperti dari bawah tanah dan pintu-pintu rumah bergetar. "Di Bogor terdengar dentuman yg berasal seperti dari bawah tanah dan pintu2 rumah pada bergetar keras," tulisnya.

Lebih lanjut kompas.com juga melaporkan bahwa suara dentuman itu terdengar pula di Jakarta dan Depok. Misalnya pada @yulieannah07 yang mengaku warga Jakarta Selatan juga mengaku terbangun dan mendengar suara dentuman aneh tersebut. Suara dentuman juga terdengar sampai Tangerang, seperti dilaporkan akun @ptrrene ke akun BNPB Indonesia. 


Suara dentuman aneh ini juga membuat sejumlah WhatsApp Grup ramai. Ada warga Jakarta Pusat, Luthfi, mengaku tidak mendengar dentuman aneh tersebut, sementara Azwar yang tinggal Di Depok melaporkan mendengar dentuman tersebut. "Depok kedengaran jelas," tulisnya, Sabtu, pukul 02.53 WIB. 
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Pada situasi normal, Gunung Anak Krakatau adalah destinasi wisata yang sangat indah (jejakpiknik.com

Lalu, laman Magma Kementerian ESDM melaporkan pula bahwa letusan kedua terjadi pukul 22.35 WIB. Tinggi kolom abu kurang lebih 500 meter di atas puncak. Kutipan langsungnya yaitu, "Kolom abu teramati berwarna kelabu dengan intensitas sedang hingga tebal ke arah utara. Erupsi ini terekam di seismograf dengan amplitude maksimum 40 milimeter dengan durasi 2.248 detik," 

Indonesia merupakan negara yang memiliki banyak gunung berapi yang terbentang dari wilayah barat sampai timur Nusantara, tidak heran jika disebut sebagai Ring of Fire. 


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Kota Surabaya dan Jakarta tidaklah berbeda dari segi aktivitas penduduk dan fungsinya sebagai sebuah kota besar. Keduanya merupakan kota bersejarah di Indonesia, sama-sama kota perjuangan untuk kemerdekaan Indonesia. 

Penduduk di Jakarta dan Surabaya juga sangat beragam, namum mereka punya kesamaan, bahwa sebuah kota bukan hanya bisa sekadar untuk memenuhi kebutuhan hidup, melainkan juga bisa menjadi kota yang nyaman dalam segala cuaca. 
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Wajah MONAS bopeng setelah 190 pohon ditebang oleh Anies Baswedan, gubernur di ibukota RI (poskota.id)

Di tengah keresahan warga dunia pada pemanasan global (global warming) dan perubahan iklim (climate change), ternyata pemimpin di Jakarta dan Surabaya punya aksi yang berbeda. Setelah Indonesia memasuki musim hujan dengan curah tinggi, apalagi setelah kedua kota ini mengalami banjir pada awal tahun 2020, mata warga di kedua  kota ini bisa melihat perbedaan dengan perasaan yang tidak sama.


Waste management and green technology survey in Asia

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Green living showcase. Image: cleantechnica.com
You must have known, that in May 2015, more than 1000 people have been killed since the air temperature is very hot in India, around 50 degrees Celsius. What are the causes of such extreme temperatures? Is it true that because of the real effects of global warming?

Whether there has been a change of climate which is so extreme in India? What about other countries? Do we have to care or fail to prevent global warming?

On this page, I present the results of a survey of YouGovSurvey, because I am a member of this survey. Hopefully, the information as mentioned below can provide benefits for all of us, especially in the context of creating a greener the environment around us.

Based on a survey conducted by YouGov, a renowned institution, then found the opinion of people in Asia on environmental issues in their country. The survey also associated with the problem of global warming, and how prevention can be done. Perhaps this survey is very interesting for you to learn, and you can make the guidelines in your country, at least to you and your family, so that more and more people are concerned about the need to prevent global warming.

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A green attitude supposed to be everyone's new resolution

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A beautiful environment in Bali. Image: destinationpoint.com
By Komang Setiabudi

Since the problem of global warming became an issue in the world, as well as about the consequences of climate change, a growing number of world leaders, green activists, politicians and many others who spoke about the importance of green earth and blue sky.

Lots of ideas, creativity, and actions that have sprung up in order to prevent global warming, even expected that global warming can be stopped. World bodies like the United Nations are also busy voiced about the dangers of environmental destruction, which resulted in bad weather, indiscriminate logging, and a variety of environmental activities in many countries.
 
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Air pollution. Image: creofire.com
Meanwhile, politicians and government officials involved in many scandals or receive bribes from various global corporate giants to change the function of the protected forest, or fail to prevent environmental pollution in a city or the countryside. 

There are many promises of the politicians or government candidates in every election that promises to improve environmental conditions, but they promise to be poor in the implementation.

The Balinese way to prevent global warming

by Sidarta Wijaya


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Bunut Bolong, a unique tree, protected by Balinese Hindu.
Global warming has been the most popular and the most global problem recently and various ways have been thought, planned and implemented to fight the global warming and in the United Nation Conference For Climate Change in Nusa Dua last week came up with a proposal to adopt Balinese Nyepi (silent day) in which no activity is allowed for 24 hours, no working, no traveling, absence from using electricity, engine and other pollution-generate devices. This proposal seems quite tough to be adopted by the fast-paced developed nation but Nyepi is not the only kind of effort to fight global warming has to offer there are several simpler efforts to preserve the environment and reducing the glass-house effect that has been practiced by Balinese for centuries.
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Balinese have a special ceremony to beg express gratitude to the vegetation and beg for their prosperity to God so they can always provide their crops for mankind. The ceremony is called Tumpek Wariga or Tumpek Pengatag. Plants are seen as human relatives, as they are also part of God’s family. It is people’s duty to protect plants; moreover Balinese believe that prosperity and comfort will come around whenever the vegetation is protected and conserved.

How do our bodies reduce the impact of air pollution?

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Air pollution in Beijing. Image: carnewschina.com
You definitely feel the difference in the air quality in major cities and the countryside and we have heard how Beijing with a very dense population of dizziness facing air pollution, as well as other major cities in the world.

 Exposure to pollution often can not be avoided. Even so, it turns the body has its own mechanism to counteract the pollution so that the normal exposure, the body is only getting minimal impact.

As quoted from the website health.kompas.com, Agus Dwi Susanto, a lung specialist from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia explained that the body has a mechanism of disposal of carbon monoxide at a time, which is in the morning after waking. Carbon monoxide is known as the most abundant gas in air pollution, especially from vehicle exhaust. Agus said that the release of carbon monoxide gas will be equivalent to that enter the body from exposure to pollution with normal levels. 

Miss World 2013 on the conservation of rare animals in Bali

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Miss World participant activities in Bali Safari and Marine Park with Orangutans and other rare animals. Image: normannorman.com
The Miss World contest in September 2013 in Bali is not only a beauty pageant contests and intelligence of beautiful women from 130 countries, but also, they have a concern for children with special needs, learning arts and crafts such as dances and other social activities, the beautiful woman is also concerned with the conservation and preservation of endangered species and the environment. 

Miss World 2013 pageant organizers invite the world-class beauty pageant contestant on a visit in of Bali Safari & Marine Park, Gianyar, to get to know a variety of native animals and the conservation. They may make this visit to enjoy a tour living environment and the preservation of endangered species Indonesian native which has been rare. With this visit, beautiful women can be informed about the importance of human nature to preserve and prevent poaching of rare animals in their own countries. This activity is just as important as the tropical rain forest greenery (reforestation), and planting mangroves at many beaches.

Flash floods in Colorado, is a sign of global warming?

The highest record rainfall in September in Colorado, which was recorded in 1940, has been exceeded. Large floods that have swept Colorado in the United States this has caused the missing of more than 200 people, not to mention the damage to homes, roads, the death of some people, animals, and trees. 
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The flash floods in Colorado, USA. Image: news.yahoo.com

As a result of the terrible floods and widespread impact, President Barack Obama through FEMA or federal emergency management agency to declare a state of emergency for Boulder, Larimer, and El Paso County. The declaration allows FEMA to bring the best 4 ever rescue team stationed in Colorado.

In Boulder, rain during September caused flooding in the border city of Boulder Canyon and cause approximately 4,000 residents have moved to a safer place. In Longmont, about 23 miles northeast of Boulder, St. Vrain River water also flooded the cliff overfill the main highway leading to many roads were closed and many of the guides aground.

Harrison Ford shooting a movie about the forest environmental in Indonesia

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Harrison Ford received a garland of trained elephants at the camp in the flying squad WWF Nilo forest. Image: Zamzami, mongabay.co.id
Celebrities and socialites can indeed be an appeal to raise important issues that could attract the attention of world leaders and society so that the world would pay closer attention to a problem that has occurred, especially when the problem will have a broad impact in the future.
 
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Indiana Jones. 
Recently, the Hollywood film star, best known for the movie Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford was in Indonesia. Ford is making a documentary glow 'Years of Living Dangerously' is one of the highlights of deforestation in Indonesia.

Such as his role in Indiana Jones who became an archaeologist, in the real world, Ford now become an environmental activist. Ford is very attentive to the protection of tropical rain forests. Indonesia has a fairly high rate of forest destruction due to logging, conversion for plantations, and forest fires. It is considered not surprising then Ford, starring Hans Solo in Star Wars, pay attention and heed Indonesia, as reported by mongabay.com, Tuesday (09/10/2013).
 
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Harrison Ford and crew when shooting in the Nilo forestImage: Zamzami, mongabay.co.id
Harrison Ford made ​​a movie called "Years of Living Dangerously" is in the jungle of Central Kalimantan.

 He also had to Pekanbaru, Riau province, in an area where there are frequent forest fires. The shooting was also carried out in Nilo National Park, Riau.

Adventure and save coral reefs in Ujung Kulon National Park

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Diving in Ujung Kulon. Image: tanjunglesung.com
Are you a tourist who also cares about environmental sustainability? You are also people who want to prevent global warming? 

Perhaps you are also very fond of a diver or snorkel in the crystal clear beaches. 

Underwater beauty can indeed be sea sports activities. There are many novice and professional divers who have enjoyed the beauty of the coral reefs in many exotic dive spots. Are they also care to save coral reefs (terumbu karang), beautiful fishes, and many other marine resources? 

Ujung Kulon National Park you can also find the rare one-horned rhinoceros (badak bercula satu), met with a herd of Javanese bison (Banteng Jawa), and protected areas have tremendous biodiversity. If you are a scientist and forest lover, you must be a happy adventure in this park.

Balinese unique way to protect trees


Human, environmental, and animals or trees should live together in peace, to care for each other. When people need a way to get to a place, they would have made ​​a good road so they can get faster in the destination.
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Young tourists being photographed in a tree "Bunut Bolong" before COVID-19
several years ago. (baliexpress.jawapos.com)

 If you look at this photo, a community on the island of Bali has a unique way to rescue an old tree, a tree named "Bunut", which was related to the tree banyan tree. 

Incidentally, this tree has no gaps or holes, then there was a compromise between man and the tree, the tree can still grow beautiful, people can freely pass on the sidelines of the tree to go to another village and return to their hometown, and vice versa.

Hindu communities in Bali believe a philosophy known as the "Tri Hita Karana". So, there are three things that must be done by humans: First, establish a relationship which harmonious with God the Creator. Second: Humans also foster harmonious relationships with fellow human beings. Third: People should have a balanced and harmonious relationship with the environment.