Cinema screens, singers to lure Indonesian evacuees

"We will set up an outdoor cinema at several shelters in Blitar district in order to attract people to evacuate," said Kamtono, a local official from one of the two districts that would be affected by the volcano blowing.

"We are having big difficulties asking people to evacuate. They don't want to leave their livestock untended in the village and they also still believe the elderly people who are saying that Kelut won't erupt soon," he told AFP.

Kamtono said that some shelters would also be set up with stages where singers of "dangdut" -- a genre of Indonesian pop music -- would entertain people.

Meanwhile, a scientist monitoring Kelut said that hundreds more shallow tremors rumbled beneath the volcano overnight Thursday, showing that magma pressure was still rising.

"We recorded 599 shallow tremors inside the volcano from midnight till 06:00 am (1700 GMT to 2300 GMT Thursday)," the scientist, Hendrasto, told AFP.