Anak Krakatau shuts eight Indonesian airports and grounds hundreds of flights in Jakarta

Germany

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Explicitly reported conflicting numerical assessments · 4 of 15 countries

Berlin is gauging the crisis primarily by the paralyzed international air traffic, with cancelled flights to Europe and conflicting tallies depending on the source.

Argentina

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Explicitly reported conflicting numerical assessments · 4 of 15 countries

Buenos Aires is dissecting the Indonesian air chaos through official figures that its own media outlets are reporting, sometimes in a contradictory manner.

Australia

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Airlines and direct air links disrupted · 4 of 15 countries

Canberra is first assessing the impact on its own companies: four Qantas flights cancelled, six Perth-Jakarta routes disrupted, but Bali has been spared.

Bangladesh

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Coverage through international dispatches and human angle · 6 of 15 countries

Bangladesh is particularly concerned about the air travel disruption caused by the eruption: 964 flights were disrupted in Jakarta, eight airports were closed, and up to 170,000 passengers were prevented from traveling, according to the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation.

Canada

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Coverage through international dispatches and human angle · 6 of 15 countries

Ottawa first notes the figure of air chaos: 150,000 passengers stranded in Jakarta, before relaying Indonesia's denial of an imminent tsunami risk.

United States

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Coverage through international dispatches and human angle · 6 of 15 countries

The United States is first assessing the extent of the air chaos in Jakarta: Singapore Airlines and its subsidiary Scoot are cancelling their flights, and a column of ash is being tracked by satellite imagery all the way to the Indian Ocean.

France

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Explicitly reported conflicting numerical assessments · 4 of 15 countries

Paris is closely watching the air chaos caused by Anak Krakatoa, where the estimated numbers of flights and affected passengers vary significantly from one Indonesian source to another.

Hungary

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Explicitly reported conflicting numerical assessments · 4 of 15 countries

Budapest is primarily concerned with the extent of the airborne chaos triggered by Anak Krakatau, measuring the event in terms of hundreds of thousands of stranded passengers rather than the immediate volcanic threat.

Indonesia

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Indonesia: the institutional source · 1 of 15 countries

Jakarta is first tallying the aerial cost of the Anak Krakatau eruption, before measuring its geological dimension.

Japan

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Airlines and direct air links disrupted · 4 of 15 countries

Tokyo gauges the eruption of Anak Krakatau first in terms of its own severed air links with Indonesia, before viewing it as a distant volcanic event.

Malaysia

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Airlines and direct air links disrupted · 4 of 15 countries

Kuala Lumpur is gauging the crisis by its own air traffic: cancelled flights, the airport transformed into a backup stop, and hundreds of travellers stranded on the Malaysian side.

Népal

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Coverage through international dispatches and human angle · 6 of 15 countries

Kathmandu is primarily concerned with the individual plight of stranded travelers rather than a macroeconomic assessment, with local media simply relaying Reuters and AFP dispatches on the Anak Krakatau eruption without providing their own reporting.

Sweden

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Coverage through international dispatches and human angle · 6 of 15 countries

Stockholm is gauging the crisis in light of its own bloody history — 1883, 2018 — while also closely following the program of Crown Princess Victoria, who is currently in Indonesia at the time of the eruption.

Turkey

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Coverage through international dispatches and human angle · 6 of 15 countries

Turkey puts the eruption of Anak Krakatau back in the global volcanic memory, while relaying the assurance of Indonesian authorities that no tsunami is to be feared in the immediate future.

Vietnam

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Airlines and direct air links disrupted · 4 of 15 countries

Hanoi is first tallying the direct cost for its own airlines, between cancelled flights and stranded passengers in Jakarta.