REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDARLAMPUNG -- The Lampung provincial government will go ahead with holding the Krakatau Festival 2019 despite a tsunami that hit South Lampung and Banten on December 22, 2018. Krakatau Festival is a routine tourism event of Lampung Province, and it has been included in the national tourism calendar of events.

The festival's agenda will include a visit to Mount Anak Krakatau, which had erupted and triggered the tsunami that claimed the lives of at least 437 people in the provinces of Banten and Lampung. The visit will be coordinated with the local meteorology and geophysics office and the local natural resources conservation office to ensure that it is safe to be held on that day. If the two offices advice against doing so, the visit will be cancelled.

Mount Anak Krakatau. The photo was taken on December 23, 2018.

"The tsunami has affected the tourism industry in Lampung that has numerous scenic beaches and the Way Kambas National Park," Budiharto, head of the Lampung tourism office, stated here, recently.