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At least 38 people died this month in landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in Central Java and around 13 are still missing.

A devastating landslide also hit three villages in the Central Java district of Cilacap on Thursday last week.

Clouds of ash and gas rise above Mount Semeru on Indonesia's main island of Java after eruptions force officials to raise the alert status to its highest level.

Home in the wild for the small Silvery Gibbon is the rainforests of Java in Indonesia.

Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when it collapsed last Monday while undergoing construction.