At the foot of Mount Semeru, what is left of the houses along the main village road is covered in a thick layer of hardened volcanic ash.
Curah Kobokan was among the worst-hit areas when the 3,676m Mount Semeru erupted on Saturday, sending a cloud of ash into the sky and dangerous pyroclastic flows into villages below.
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