Overview
- A sustained eruptive episode that began in early September produced a large ash plume that disrupted Indonesian air travel and affected about 2,961 flights and roughly 340,000 passengers.
- Indonesia’s geological agency says the roughly 25‑hour continuous phase ended but the volcano remains at Alert Level III with ongoing intermittent explosions and elevated seismicity.
- Authorities have kept a 3‑kilometre exclusion zone in place, issued health and schooling advisories for ashfall in Banten, West Java, Jakarta, Lampung and Bengkulu, and staged airport inspections before reopening.
- Multi‑agency search teams continue looking for a fast boat carrying five photojournalists, two crew and a guide that lost contact after leaving Carita, with no confirmed sightings to date.
- Fact‑checkers used AI‑detection tools to show a widely shared video of people fleeing the eruption was artificially generated, underscoring both physical dangers and misinformation risks around the event.