clipped from: news.yahoo.com 
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian responses ranged from despair to acceptance after a tsunami on Monday killed at least 256 people on Java, the latest in a line of disasters to hit the sprawling, developing nation in recent years.
The biggest was the December 2004 tsunami that struck Indonesia's Aceh province the hardest, leaving 170,000 people dead or missing.
But since then, few months have gone by without landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or floods that have taken or disrupted lives.
Some have been partially or wholly man-made. Wholesale logging has slashed the ability of ground to hold water, increasing the likelihood of floods and landslides, environmentalists say. Energy exploration in eastern Java caused a flow of mud and water that displaced 8,000 people recently.