However, the holiday hotspot, alongside the rest of the country has a deadly history with earthquakes.
This is because Indonesia is at the meeting point of three major continental plates – the Pacific, the Eurasian and the Indo-Australian plates – and the much smaller Philippine plate.
Indonesia also falls on the horseshoe-shaped Ring of fire around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
The Earth’s plates grind against each other all the time.
Sometimes they get stuck and pressure builds – an earthquake is the sudden and violent release of this pressure.
source: express.co.uk