Indonesia airports reopen after volcanic ash disrupts thousands of flights

Five airports reopen after authorities cleared volcanic ash from critical infrastructure.

A Batik Air Airbus A320 lands at Soekarno-Hatta international airport, which reopened following the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau, in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, September 8, 2026 [Yuddy Cahya Budiman/Reuters]

Indonesia has reopened its main airport in Jakarta and four others that had been closed ⁠due to volcanic ash from Mount Anak Krakatau.

The five airports reopened on Tuesday after authorities cleared volcanic ash from critical infrastructure.

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The disruption affected more than 340,000 travellers and approximately 2,900 flights.

Videos shared on social media by Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta showed firefighters and firetrucks clearing runways and other operational facilities covered by ash.

Transport Minister Dudy Purwagandhi said it may take “a bit” longer for flight schedules to return to normal.

“We ask for a little patience from passengers and the public, as we will be carrying out inspections to ensure that these aircraft are fit to fly,” Dudy told reporters at the airport.

“The first departing aircraft was a cargo plane,” Dudy said. “We will be operating these aircraft, but before we do so, we want to ensure their airworthiness. So, it may take a bit of extra time.”

Anak Krakatau, which had a major eruption on Saturday, sits in a strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra.

The volcano erupted at least three times on Tuesday morning alone, according to the head of the national Geology Agency, Lana Saria.

“The impact is not as big as the previous eruptions, but we’ll continue to monitor,” the head of the Geology Agency, Lana Saria, told the Reuters news agency.

Anak Krakatau is one of about 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which straddles the “Pacific Ring of Fire”, a highly seismically active zone where different plates on the Earth’s crust ‌meet to create a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

An outburst in 2018 partly collapsed the volcano’s crater, which triggered a tsunami along the coasts of Java and Sumatra, killing more than 400 people.

当局清除关键基础设施上的火山灰后，五个机场重新开放。

一架蜡染航空空客 A320 降落在苏加诺-哈达国际机场，该机场于 2026 年 9 月 8 日在印度尼西亚雅加达附近的坦格朗阿纳克喀拉喀托火山喷发后重新开放 [Yuddy Cahya Budiman/路透社]

印尼已重新开放其位于雅加达的主要机场以及其他四个因喀拉喀托火山火山灰而关闭的机场。

周二，在当局清除关键基础设施上的火山灰后，五个机场重新开放。

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印尼火山爆发导致数百架航班中断（共3条，此为第3条）

此次航班延误影响了超过 34 万名旅客和约 2900 个航班。

雅加达苏加诺-哈达国际机场在社交媒体上分享的视频显示，消防员和消防车正在清理被灰烬覆盖的跑道和其他运营设施。

交通部长杜迪·普尔瓦甘迪表示，航班时刻表恢复正常可能还需要“一段时间”。

“我们请求乘客和公众多一些耐心，因为我们将进行检查，以确保这些飞机适合飞行，”杜迪在机场告诉记者。

杜迪说：“第一架起飞的飞机是一架货机。我们将运营这些飞机，但在此之前，我们希望确保它们的适航性。因此，这可能需要一些额外的时间。”

喀拉喀托之子火山位于爪哇岛和苏门答腊岛之间的海峡中，该火山于周六发生了一次大规模喷发。

据国家地质局局长拉娜·萨里亚称，仅周二上午，这座火山就至少喷发了三次。

“这次火山喷发的影响不如之前的几次那么大，但我们会继续监测，”地质局局长拉娜·萨里亚告诉路透社。

喀拉喀托之子火山是印度尼西亚约 130 座活火山之一，它横跨“太平洋火环”，这是一个地震活动频繁的区域，地球地壳上的不同板块在这里相遇，从而产生大量的地震和火山爆发。

2018 年的一次火山爆发导致火山口部分坍塌，引发了爪哇岛和苏门答腊岛沿海地区的海啸，造成 400 多人死亡。