Convincing local residents to evacuate is a problem frequently faced by Indonesian disaster management authorities when a volcano is about to erupt.Some residents stubbornly refuse to leave the danger zone because they are worried about their livestock. Others fiercely insist on staying in their villages because they want to take care of their plantations and worry that their houses might be looted.In some cases, National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho warned, failure to evacuate has proved fatal.He recalled how scores of villagers were killed by the eruption of M…READ FULL ARTICLE
