This Climber Is Still Being Sought For Turning On The Flare At The Peak Of Mount Andong

JAKARTA - This male climber is being sought because he is turning on the flare at the top of Mount Andong's Alap, Magelang, Central Java. Flares can endanger ecosystems in mountain areas.

Quoted from Instagram @andongviapendem, it appears that male climbers take pictures at the top of Mount Andong's Alap-alap with a background of orange brown smoke. Also uploaded is a video of a strong wind causing flare smoke to spread.

Flare is certainly dangerous as has happened in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (TNBTS) area. The Mount Bromo hill area was burned because visitors used flares or flares for shooting purposes. Since then, tourist access in the Bromo area has been closed to tourists and fires have only been extinguished on September 15, 2023.

As a result of a series of forest and land fires in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park area, an area of 504 hectares was reported to have been damaged. The majority of damaged areas are savana areas.