Bringing River Back To Its Original Form

Close to a decade after one of the most volatile volcano eruptions hit the Central Java region, a Volvo excavator is helping to return the Pabelan River back to its original form.

In 2010, one of Indonesia’s most dangerous volcanos—Mount Merapi in Central Java—violently erupted over the course of two months, engulfing nearby areas in ash, mud and debris.

Described as one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the region since the 1870s, the volcano dumped mass amounts of cold lava that flooded and damaged rivers including the nearby Pabelan River in Muntilan, Magelang. Now close to a decade later, a local mining quarry company is using an EC210D crawler excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment to mine for rocks and to help stabilise the river.