Snaking queues formed astatine the departure halls successful Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport connected Monday arsenic stranded passengers sought refunds and tried to get updates connected erstwhile they would beryllium capable to fly.
A recently wed Malaysian couple, who had conscionable spent a week successful Bali, said they were told that the adjacent formation backmost to Kuala Lumpur wouldn't beryllium until 11 September.
"What are we going to bash present for different 5 days? We lone prepared capable wealth for our honeymoon and [were supposed] to spell location yesterday," Amir Hamzah told Malaysia's nationalist quality bureau Bernama.
"We thought we would conscionable slumber astatine the airdrome for a fewer hours and past instrumentality the greeting formation location [on Monday]. We ne'er thought we would extremity up being stuck present for days," the 29-year-old said.
Suhardi, 58, was owed to question from Jakarta to Lampung for work.
"This is nature, aft all. So I person to judge it, due to the fact that erstwhile it comes to nature, there's nary choice. Now I'm conscionable waiting for the adjacent update from the airline," helium tells Reuters quality agency.
On Monday, Indonesia's Geological Agency warned that "the probability of further eruptions successful the coming periods remains high".
Volcanic ash reached arsenic precocious arsenic 6,000m connected the Java broadside of the volcano and 15,000m connected the Sumatra broadside and successful immoderate parts of Java's westernmost state Banten, the meteorological bureau BMKG said.
Anak Krakatau sits connected the Sunda Strait astir midway betwixt the islands of Java and Sumatra.
The astir caller eruption occurred astatine 20:23 connected Sunday, according to the agency.
"We cannot ascertain erstwhile this will extremity owed to the dynamic weather," Transport Minister Dudy Purwagandhi said successful narration to the impermanent closures of the affected airports.
Dudy said connected Sunday that authorities crossed the airports person been conducting tests each 30 minutes "to expect whether the ash dispersed is widening oregon subsiding".
Authorities person warned against approaching oregon engaging successful activities wrong a 3km radius from the progressive crater, portion ships passing done the Sunda Strait person besides been prohibited from entering an exclusion portion of 3km radius from it.
Authorities person confirmed determination is nary tsunami informing linked to the caller enactment of the volcano.
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