Authorities alerted mount Agung activity, and shut down Besakih temple from tourists

News24xx.com -  The status of Mount Agung rising to Level IV (Dangerous) on Friday, September 2017 at 20.30 WITa.

Vice Regent of Karangasem, Wayan Artha Dipa explains Besakih Temple in the red zone of Mount Agung was forced to shut down temporarily.

"Starting (Saturday, 23 September 2017) tomorrow morning, tourists should not go into areas that were presented earlier (a radius of 12 kilometers)," said Deputy Regent of Karangasem, Wayan Artha Dipa in Monitor Stage Mount Agung Banjar, Rendang, Karangasem, Bali.

The region already described by Wayan should be emptied. He explained in a radius of 12 kilometres that there should be no activities, including from tourists who will visit.

"Its inhabitants are already down. We see its progress to actual travelers if the radius that there should be no activities, surely we don't allow tourists to enter, so the inhabitants should not go, let alone tourists, " said Wayan.

He suggested that foreign tourists who were in Karangasem in order to find other attractions outside a radius of 12 kilometers.

For example, the tourist beaches are located away from the red zone of Mount Agung.

"There are areas of Tulamben Beach Tourism also far away. Meanwhile the affected object directly in Besakih, outside the secure area,"he said.