Juanda, a 41-year-old villager, said he was feeding his chickens on Wednesday when he heard a roar overhead.
“I looked up and saw a huge white plane moving unsteadily just slightly below the mountain summit. It was still way above the trees but veering left and right, and then it disappeared,” he told AFP by telephone from Tenjolaya district, near Mount Salak.
“I heard a sound like firecrackers, but I couldn’t see it anymore.”