Officials in Indonesia received information regarding the tsunami in the form of bulletins from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and the Japan Meteorological Agency , but wanted to avoid panic , and did not attempt to disseminate the advisories to the public . Virtually no time was available to make that sort of effort ( had the intention been to communicate the danger with the public ) because some community leaders were sent text messages with pertinent information only minutes prior to the arrival of the first waves . The tsunami affected the coast of Java comprising mostly fishing villages and beach resorts that were unscathed following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami , and was also only several hundred kilometers distant from the region that saw heavy destruction just several months prior during the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami