Mystery (Volcanic) Mount Merapi Yogyakarta

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Entering the Merapi area quickly felt the fresh air and beautiful nature.
This morning was the rain falling since dawn. But another story another first today, your history today struck by a frightening figure by the sight of large trucks loaded with sand and driven by reckless, became king of the road undefeated Truck load of sand miners from Mount Merapi became active around dawn, morning these trucks lined up scrambling up the mountain, and approximately 07.00 already begun to fall in tandem with a full load of sand. This kind of activity until late at night.
Then what and why this is so aggressive sand mining?.


Sand mining in Boyong, Village Purwowinangun, Pakem and Opak, Hamlet Batur, Kepuharjo, Cangkringan, complained of residents for causing damage to roads in the conservation area. Who observed the narrow streets, where it intersects two vehicles just hard on the road Turgo, on Friday, accompanied by his entourage passed every day truck number 13s / d 18 trucks, while the duration of the inter-group with one another truck, 5s / d 10 minutes, if the calculated minimal transport (8 hours) a day = (8 hours: 10 minutes) x 13truk = 48X13 = 624 x truck transporting sand.
The number of trucks expected no less than 200truk milled sand carrier operating in an area located in the Mount Merapi (How noisy made this area). Mine is 2.2 hectares is estimated to contain more sand than 250,000 cubic meters.
Uncontrolled mining activities may result in environmental issues. Damage due to road traffic transport transportation of materials mined. Among these is the destruction of flood control dam lava of Mount Merapi, a process of landslides on either side of the river cliff Boyong.
Therefore, the necessary measures so that the environmental monitoring and management of environmental conditions at the present time does not develop into increasingly worse. Broadly speaking, the necessary efforts to address these issues in an integrated manner, covering aspects of regulations and legislation, management / professional natural resource management include the planning stages of the design of environmentally sound mining, mining process can seek the smallest possible environmental damage and environmental control and pollution caused by the exploitation of natural resources such minerals. Addition of socio-cultural aspects need to reduction / control the possibility of social conflicts caused by mining.

Now Merapi natural conditions in the region is changing rapidly. Some villages in Pakem and Cangkringan has now turned into a sand mining pits that every day filled with miners, beghoe and sand transport truck.
Residents living near the slopes of Mount Merapi protest rampant sand mining because it threatens the environment in which they live. During this protest has been filed to the Governor of Yogyakarta, but there is no response. Sand mining activities on the slopes of Mount Merapi in Yogyakarta until today still ongoing. Heavy equipment such as begho used to dredge sand from the slopes of Merapi. Kepuharjo citizens, and citizens Boyong, Sleman, Yogyakarta, which are surrounding the mining of sand opposed sand mining on the slopes of Merapi, which has been out of control. Residents consider the use of heavy equipment such as begho will have a negative impact on the surrounding environment. Additionally fro hundreds of trucks every day also destroyed roads and paths disaster evacuation. The slopes of Mount Merapi has been an area that is very important as a water catchment for the needs of the people of Yogyakarta and Klaten, Central Java.
why
Merapi sand mining is so tempting, so many people can not control let alone prevent it? Then the government, what role, why continue to give permission to mine ?.
Now when the environment is getting damaged and losses on the greater damage to the environment, to what the mining activities continue to be permitted without control? Communities and governments in the four districts which are included in the Merapi area, seharus prohibit destructive mining activities and expressly did some restrictions related to mining license restrictions, restrictions on the location of the mine and especially sand mining volume restrictions based on the carrying capacity of the eruption of Merapi.




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