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Hello, peace be upon you. Good morning, my friends. So, because many of you requested an update on the current condition of Bromo after the fire that covered over 1,000 hectares, I am now in Bromo to show you its current state.
Update on Bromo's condition after a massive fire that burned over 1,000 hectares, showing current landscape and recovery prospects.
Key Takeaways
- The fire burned a vast area of Bromo, around 1,200 hectares, causing visible damage.
- Despite the damage, some areas remain green and are expected to recover naturally.
- Tourism is affected by the fire but the site remains open with updated visitor protocols.
- Environmental recovery is anticipated as ash enriches the soil, promoting new growth.
- The climate remains cold and the landscape shows stark contrasts between burned and safe zones.
What the video covers
- The video provides an on-site update of Bromo after a fire that burned approximately 1,200 hectares.
- The host tours the burned areas, showing blackened, scorched, and some still green patches of land.
- Ticket prices and visitor information are shared, including parking and entry fees.
- The fire caused significant damage to the grasslands and some stalls but spared key landmarks like Teletubbies Hill and the water tank.
- The host discusses the environmental impact, including air pollution and tourism disruption.
- Positive aspects include natural rejuvenation due to ash acting as organic fertilizer.
- The video captures the cold climate and the visual contrast between burned and unburned areas.
- The host notes the difficulty of firefighting efforts and the ineffectiveness of some methods like misting drones.
- The video ends with reflections on the resilience of the ecosystem and hopes for quick recovery.
- The update is aimed at viewers interested in Bromo's current state post-fire and tourism conditions.
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Let's go, let's travel from up here down to the Bromo Savanna. Check this out. Okay, friends, let's start the video from here. At the bend near Bromo Hillside, up there is Bromo Hillside, which I posted about yesterday with the
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title "Why is the food so expensive now?" There were many comments. I've been coming here since it first opened, you know, helping to promote it. Seeing the price, it's very different, friends, compared to the quality of the food
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served, and many of the menus have changed too. Okay, this is for the jeep and motorbike parking. If you guys want to go to Bromo or to the Jemplang post, this is where you go. We have arrived here. Now, that is a sea of, what do
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you call it? Clouds. Now, let's head to the post first. I have already bought the ticket. Let's go. Okay, we're going down, friends. We'll sweep through the area, yes. And I already bought the ticket for 84,000 Rupiah earlier. I saw
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the gate closed earlier and wanted to park on the side but it was full.
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Excuse me, sir. Now, this is what you get nowadays, friends. For 80,000 Rupiah, you get a bracelet. Okay, let's continue the journey. Now, the dry grass here didn't burn. Thank God, this part didn't burn either. Back then, maybe 2 years ago,
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or 2 or 3 years ago, this area was affected, friends. This side caught fire all the way down here. So, if this gets too long, I might make two videos.
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If not, one video should be enough. Because I really just want to update on the current situation. Whoa, there's a jungle fowl. Just updating on the current situation regarding the condition after the fire yesterday.
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Because in my previous video and on IG, many commented, "Bro, try checking the current condition after the Bromo fire, heard it's already open." Actually, I wanted to come here last week, friends.
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But because it was closed, I didn't end up coming. I went to Bedengan instead and the video was aired. Then I went to Sulawesi. And finally, hearing the news that it's open, as a Malang YouTuber who always updates on Bromo, I came
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here. It's a precious place visited by people from all over Indonesia and abroad. Oh my. Ugh, it's cold, friends.
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But the sun is starting to rise and become visible now. Amen. It's safe here, yes. So, what do you call it? The area that burned was vast, friends. So, if what I read in the news is around 1200-ish hectares, that's huge. Wow.
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But usually, uh, fires like that have two, what's it called? Two perceptions, friends. If we look at it from the losses, yes, it's definitely pollution, air pollution. Then from the tourism side, it gets closed and the view becomes less appealing. But later from
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the benefit side, the positive side is that it will rejuvenate, rejuvenate, what's it called, not habitat, uh, what conservation, what is it, the plants there will be good, friends, they'll grow again, flourish again, because, uh, the ash and everything else will
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later, uh, become organic fertilizer. Yes, here friends is the view of Bromo after it burned down yesterday. Whoa, this part is safe, just yellow. August is usually the dry season, friends. And the coldest times in Bromo are during
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these months, August and September. Yes, over here it's burned, friends. Up there, see. Look, up there, all the way to there, it's burned black. We're going down now. Whoa, goodness, it's yellow here. The stall that burned down
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yesterday was over there, friends. This is brown. This brown part, it didn't burn. The right side looks like it burned. But there is some green, friends. There is some green here, yes.
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There is some red. Even though the sun is out, it's still this cold. It's starting to, uh, what's it called?
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Blackened. Starting to have some green, friends. It takes a while, if it burns it lasts for days, friends. Some even brought out, what's it called, spraying drones, yes, but for me, it's not effective. The nozzle is for misting,
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not for putting out fires. It's like this, yes. This stall is safe or has been fixed up again. It didn't burn here. It's the right side that's burned, yes. All black, but it's already starting to grow green, friends. When I
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saw the first post, the first post when it was burning. Whoa, here, in that spot it's marked with rafia rope, we're not allowed there. Whoa, this is the look of Bromo after the fire. Black and brown. Oh, there's a little bit of
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green and over there it didn't burn but it's dried out, looking like it's scorched. We are passing this road just now, yes. Because in my last video at Bromo before the fire, it was green, friends. Now, let's take a look. Whoa,
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it's reddish and cold here. We're looking at the view on the right. The view of the burned Bromo. Uh. Oh. Du du du duh. It's cold. Whoa. But what is that, what is that? A water tank, yeah.
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The water tank is still blue, friends. Still intact. Even though the area underneath it burned. H here is a stretch of, what's it called? A stretch of grass that burned. Yeah. Yeah. Uh.
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That's really nice. This is great. Ouch. Doo doo doo doo. It's freezing cold.
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Seriously guys, it’s really cold here. It’s all gone. But just wait, guys, it’ll definitely turn green again.
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Green. Green. Green mania. Bird song lady. Huh wuh. That looks great. Like it has an aura from planet Saturn. It still smells like something burned, guys. Smells like what? Not burned.
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Smells like ash. Ash from the fire. There’s the Teletubbies hill over there. If that's the Teletubbies hill, it didn't burn. That hill over there didn't burn. This side, guys. This side, the direction here is what burned.
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From up there. Wow, it's all just black up there. Uh, cooling down. Doo. Doo, doo. Whoa. This is really a mess. What is it? Unfair. Ouch. This is even worse. The further we go, the worse the ash
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is, guys. There’s so much. Wuh doo doo doo doo. Wow, it's really freezing. Even though the sun is out. Uh, what’s the temperature here? I didn't bring a thermometer here. Uh, cooling down, this part is burned. H seriously,
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my hands are freezing. Where is it? Here. That over there is all gone. That side is still green, but it’s brown here. Even though when I came here yesterday, the grass was so tall, guys.
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So the road there wasn't visible. If a motorbike or car passed by, you couldn't see it now. Whoa, everything is visible. Uh, so cold. Huh. Maybe we should stop for a bit. I don't like it.
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Seriously, it’s too cold to handle. Hah. Hold the engine block. Aduh. Hah. Some say to hold the exhaust, that's crazy. Why hold the exhaust? Huh. Huh.
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Hah. Cold. So, I’m getting off for a second and turns out it’s just ash here. So, it’s really obvious, guys, that yesterday the vegetation here had tall grass and the ash is thick. Then over there, it turns out that part up
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there, guys, that whole stretch up there was completely burned. Even though some leaves are still green, overall it’s completely burned up to that point where we entered earlier from the big entrance, it was burned.
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The bottom didn't, but the top burned. Good thing it didn't spread to Bromo, seriously. Then here, it also burned and is charred, completely gone, but the boundary is there. The old road, guys. That side is safe, it didn't burn.
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It’s just very dry because it’s the dry season. It hasn't rained in a while. Then up there, it's still green.
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That part over there is completely burned flat. So before, the grass here was very tall, guys. So the grass here was, uh, what do you call it? The savanna fields were really tall. So when we walked over there, looking that
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way, you couldn't see the motorcycles or the jeeps passing by; they were invisible. Now it's clear, guys. You can see everything. It’s the same here, too. The grass here used to be really tall, and now it's all scorched.
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Come on, let's head over to the end over there. But honestly, I i
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if you touch the exhaust, you'll get burned; it might not hurt at first, but you'll get a burn later. Alright, let's continue our journey toward the sea of sand. And this is the condition, guys.
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This is me standing on the bike. Whoa, I purposely waited for it to get a bit warmer because it was so cold. And continuing on this road, it just gets colder, guys. Hitting the wind, you know. Stopped earlier. So, there's
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still, what do you call it? This haze, guys. What is this haze? The haze is like smoke—it's either smoke or fog.
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Huh. Cold. That over there is the center for, what is it called? What station is that? Probably a weather station or an ombrometer or something.
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That's still safe. Look at this. Is this smoke or fog, guys? There's so much of it here. I was planning to, what do you call it? Make a video here, all aesthetic, and take photos, but it's canceled. Well, because it turns
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out everything is all black, guys. So cold, right? Huh. This. And now it seems like Indonesia is being tested, because I don't know, fires are happening in almost so many places.
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What I regret is what's happening in Kalimantan. Kalimantan is one of the world's lungs. Indonesia's lungs. The world's lungs. The fires are so incredibly vast. Oh God, the government also seems like they aren't quick to act on the countermeasures. Even though
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they might have taken action, it hasn't been massive. Look, guys, see this? It's cool here. Everything is all black . Those people over there stopped, probably because they were cold. It's like an aura from another planet, guys.
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Seriously, it's so chilly here. Burnt out. Even the cars are visible from here, guys. Uh. Uh. Hh. It's cold.
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Burnt out. Uh. Can't take it. Here. It's done, it's not burning anymore. But there are traces of the fire. It's dry here. Here first. Wow. W. Stop for a bit. It's hot, guys. Eh, hot and cold . And if we get off here, yeah, the
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condition is like this, guys. It burned here, but it has started to, what do you call it, the ash isn't as much as before, because maybe, I don't know, there isn't much tall grass here like there was over there. Maybe, I really
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don't know either. There's a bird right there. Look, the ash is like this, huh.
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Yeah, we pray that Indonesia becomes safer and more conducive, guys. Because lately, with so many news issues circulating, uh, related to politics and also non-politics, but they definitely have something to do with politics too. There are demonstrations and all sorts, hopefully, we are
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granted uh, security and recovery, in quotation marks, yes. Indonesia is currently ill. Hopefully, it recovers soon and the source of the illness is soon eliminated. Whatever that may be, surely you guys already understand. Hah . This, yeah, it’s like this. Over
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there it’s also burning. So, as far as, uh, what I can see, it is true that , uh, there’s more burning on the cliffs, guys. On the cliffs, but the expanse of, uh, the Savanna is also burning totally over there. But the
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most significant part is from the cliffs because the info is that it started burning from the top, guys. Is this B29 or what? Maybe 30, yeah. Over here, guys. Okay, now we turn over there, yeah. Because to avoid facing
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the sun, here it’s already, uh, what do you call it? It’s already the same condition. Okay, now we head over there . In the name of God. Whoa, so it can be seen, guys. Well, earlier it was backlit, right. If it’s here now,
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it’s safe. Let’s try from here. Wow , paid 84,000 Rupiah. Just to enter like this and then leave, guys. Yeah, what else can I do? Even if I want to take photos, they’ll look bad. I also didn’t bring a good camera. Just
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brought a phone camera and a pocket one earlier. Oh boy. Huh. Here. Uh. Duh. Oh , there are people entering through there first, then. Why did I come through here? Should have gone through there. The one with the good road, this
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one is still not quite right. Yeah, you guys can see, right. Look, yeah, it’s just like this, just Bromo trees burning like that. Is it possible to ride a scooter? It’s possible, but it’s torture and quite difficult here
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. Uh du du duh. Uh, it’s visible, clearer compared to before, right? Just go right, the left road is still bumpy and the right is also bumpy. It’s the same thing anyway. Huh. Field of Ash.
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Field of Ash. Duh. Chilly, yeah. I can’t wrap my head around people who have the heart to burn burn, what is it called, the forest. Whether it’s in Bromo, in Kalimantan, in Sumatra, or anywhere else. I really can’t fathom
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it. Even though our source of breath, the source of O2, is partly from the forest. It’s not just partly, it’s primarily from those forests, guys. The creator of oxygen and we are the creators of carbon dioxide. Whoa. Amen.
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Wait, is it worth it now? Yeah, it’s just worth it, guys. Not just here, the sea of sand, the Penanjakan crater. Uh, what is it called? Uh, what is Penanjakan two? Seruni Point, that’s still plenty. I personally prefer going
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to the crater because the icon of Bromo is, well, the Bromo crater. It's cold, genuinely so cold, guys. Huh huh. H What is that, Rinaul jan? Cool. Uh, yeah. The video is just passing through like this. It's fine. Oh my. Oh, oh, oh
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. Alright, friends, that's enough for today's video, providing the latest update on the condition of Bromo after the fire. I don't know if it was set on fire or caught fire. Because if it caught fire on its own, the chance is
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small, you know. It’s possible, but unlikely. Huh. Just dust. Whoa, a bird. Wait, let me show you the direction over there from here, guys. The one near the large site earlier, it’s already starting to turn green. It recovers really fast, guys. I’m a
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week late for this. Almost a week, not quite a week yet. It’s been a few days, it's fast. Especially if it rains , it will turn green immediately, guys.
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But for the forest, the big trees are hard to replace, those people wanting to open palm oil plantations are reckless. Good thing I didn't end up working in the palm oil industry. I once applied to Astra Agro, guys. But I
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didn't, I mean, I got the call, right? And then I didn't go. Then two years later I applied again, blacklisted, didn't get called. They've arrived now, it was empty earlier. This is the one, guys, what do you call it, uh, that
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water tank. It's still intact, the color looks good, the paint isn't peeling from here. Oh, oh, oh. It's genuinely freezing. My hands hurt. Oh.
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Okay guys, that's it for our video this time. Latest update on Bromo's condition after the fire. So the entrance ticket for this motorbike with one person was 84,000 IDR. This is a holiday, if it’s a weekday or not a
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holiday, I forgot how much it is. The 25th of August 2026. Thank you. Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings. Greetings from the Ceki Brot L channel, it's starting to turn green and it's cold.
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