"One of history's most violent volcanic eruptions blasted the island of Sumbawa in the East Indies in 1815. The sulfurous gases and fiery ashes from Mount Tambora cast a pall over the entire world, causing the global cooling of 1816, known as the "year without a summer."" (NYTimes)

It seems to me that the world is rediscovering Indonesia with a flurry of announcement about the 'Hobbit people' and the discovery of pristine bird sanctuary in a span of a year.