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Development of Human Settlement Along the West Coast of Banten : Environmental Perspective After 100 tahun Years of Krakatau Eruption
When Krakatau was erupted at 10.02, Sunday morning, 27 August, 1883, 36.417 people were killed by one of the greatest volcanic eruption that ever happened on earth. The victims were not only suffered by the pyroclastics of Krakatau but also swept by tsunami which had drawn 297 Desas (a small administrative u- nit of human settlement). Of the 297 Desas, 165 of them were completely vanished from the surface of the land, and the rests were badly ruined. These groups of human settlement situated a- long the South and West coast of Sumatera and the North and West coast of Java which belonged to 5 Residencies, namely: Banten, Batavia (presently Jakarta), Bengkulu, Karawang and Lampung (See Table-l).
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