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Indonesia floods kill 11 people, displace thousands
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 22 - 02 - 2008


Floods and landslides triggered
by torrential rains in Indonesia's Java and Nusa Tenggara Timur
islands have killed 11 people and displaced thousands over the
past two weeks, a health ministry official said on Friday, according to Reuters.
Rustam Pakaya, head of the ministry's crisis centre, said
more than 3,500 people have been displaced in Central Java
where some cities have been inundated by filthy water up to two
metres high for nearly two weeks.
Nine people have been killed in Central Java and two in the
Nusa Tenggara Timur chain of islands, which lie east of Java
island.
"Medical teams have been deployed to the flood-hit-areas,"
Pakaya told Reuters.
Floods and landslides are a common occurence during the
rainy season in Indonesia, especially in heavily logged areas.
Last December, the Bengawan Solo river in central Java
burst its banks due to heavy rains causing widespread flooding
and several landslides, which left about 120 people dead.
Indonesia's leading environment group, Walhi, says
ecological destruction caused by deforestation, land conversion
and chaotic planning is responsible for the disasters.


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