Labuan Bajo, NTT, May 11 -- Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, erupted on Sunday at 08.17 p.m. Central Indonesia Time (WITA), spewing a 300-meter column of volcanic ash above its peak.

This was confirmed by a monitoring officer of Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki Herman Yosef Mboro in a written report received here on Sunday.

The ash column was monitored having a height of around 1,884 meters above sea level, with the eruption recorded in a seismograph with a maximum amplitude of 2.9 millimeters and a duration of around one minute and 55 seconds.

"The column was grey in color with a thick intensity, headed north and northeast," the officer said.

Currently, Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki is in a Level III (On Alert) status....