Instagrammers on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali have been slammed for self-indulgent posts in the shadow of Mount Agung, an erupting volcano that has forced up to 100,000 local people to flee their homes.

The jaded reaction to so-called “natural disaster selfies” was highlighted by Cosmopolitan magazine, which honed in on a series of Instagram posts by holidaymakers that have been criticised for taking an insensitive approach to an event that could wreck the tourist economy.

In one post that drew particular ire, a Ukrainian tourist using the name katepolishchuk, posed in an infinity pool gazing towards the smoking mountain.

“When you are left alone in the empty resort, because tourists are scared of the volcano, and you are chilling with the jungle and refilling your energy with the magnificent view on this power of the nature,”she wrote.

While also expressing some sympathy for locals forced to evacuate, sometimes the earth “also needs to breathe and release stress,” she continued.