Armed police forced thousands of residents to leave the slopes of one of Indonesia's deadliest volcanos today amid warnings that an eruption was imminent.
Scientists raised the alert at Mount Kelud to the highest level this week, pointing to rising temperatures and deep underground tremors.
Authorities ordered 116,000 people living along the fertile slopes to evacuate, but many have refused, saying they wanted to tend to crops and herds.
The United Nations has sent aid workers and medical supplies to the area.
Mount Kelud, on the densely populated island of Java, last erupted in 1990, killing dozens. In 1919, a powerful explosion, heard hundreds of miles away destroyed dozens of villages and killed 5,160 people.
Indonesia, which has about 150 active volcanoes spread across 17,500 islands, sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" - a series of volcanoes and fault lines stretching from the western hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia.