JAKARTA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian volcanologists on Sunday downgraded alert status of Mount Agung volcano in Bali island by one level from the highest.
The decrease is followed by reduction of no-go zone which allows some evacuees to be back home, spokesman of national disaster management agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
"The volcanic activity of Mount Agung keeps declining, so at 4 p.m. the alert status was downgraded from the highest level to the second highest level," he told Xinhua in a text message.
The evacuation zone was declared at 7.5 km from crater for the areas in the north, northeast, southeast, south and southwest, Sutopo said.
That compares with the previous dangerous zone of 12 km from the crater for the areas in the north, northeast, southeast, and southwest.
"Some of the displaced persons living in areas beyond the dangerous zone may return home," said Sutopo.
Currently a total of 133,475 evacuees are still in evacuation centers, according to him.
