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A huge flood has submerged hundreds of houses and public facilities in some parts of Medan, North Sumatra, as of Thursday afternoon. Students of the elementary school in Sei Mati village were forced to leave the school while some employees did not go to work.
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Floods in the district of Mandailing Natal, North Sumatra, have killed at least 38 people while dozens of others are reported as missing. The flood occurred when the Selang Aling river was not able to cope with heavy rains upstream. The floods reached two meters in six villages in the under-districts of Muara Batang Gadis and happened just after midnight yesterday. Most people were sleeping at the time the flood suddenly occurred.
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Thousands of houses in the Medan Sunggal area, in the city of Medan, have been flooded with up to 80 centimeters of water. The flood occurred during heavy rains that hit the area for about four hours last night. The water reached up to the waist in Jalan Rajawali, Jalan Sei Sikambing and Jalan Gatot Subroto as far as the Medan Baru area.
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More than 20,000 people have fled homes after floods hit Eastern Java since Feb. 23, the National Disaster Management Agency reported. Consecutive days of downpours have triggered Bengawan Solo river passing through Central and East Java overflowed and submerged more than five thousand houses and forced the residents to took shelters in higher grounds, spokesman of the agency Priyadi Kardono said.
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During heavy rains and tropical storms lasting for three days, floods have killed four people in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara of eastern Indonesia, and three in Jakarta and its neighboring city Bogor by Tuesday, the Jakarta Post reported. The Social Service Agency Head Sentianus Medi said that 10 villages in Central Kupang, East Kupang and Sulamu districts were submerged in 1.5 meters of water, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes and seek refuge.
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At least 400 houses in Pecakaran village, Wonokerto regency of Pekalongan, Central Java, were inundated with water levels reaching up to half a meter due to an continuous rainfall in recent days. The incessant rain also caused some bridges and farms in other neighboring villages to be broken and ruined by landslides.
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Floods caused by continuous heavy rains in West Sulawesi province killed eight, with two still missing, the Jakarta Post reported. The floods also displaced thousands people from their homes in West Sulawesi province and West Nusa Tenggara province and inundated some popular tourist spots in Bali province.
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More than 15,000 people have escaped floods in Lampung province on the island of Sumatra, a local disaster management agency said Friday. Consecutive days of heavy rain have caused rivers to overflow. Thousands of houses in South and East Lampung are submerged since Thursday, Ridwan, a local official of the agency said.
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Thousands of residents in Balikpapan, eastern Kalimantan, are forced to evacuate. They had to leave their homes because their neighborhoods are flooded after heavy rains hit the city. At least seven of the 27 areas of Balikpapan are hit, among them are; Samarinda, Damai, Gunung Guntur, and Bahagia. The floods reach up to one meter in most places.
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Floods that are caused by very high tides which flood the Muara Baru area in northern Jakarta are set to raise even further. According to information from Metro TV, the water in the main street is currently just over one meter, while the water at the fish market currently reaches 30 to 40 centimeters. Last night, most residents spent the night at their own homes, amid raising water levels. They have already experienced many floods, so they say they get used to it.
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The World Bank has warned that northern Jakarta might be hit by tidal flooding next week as the sea level will rise by up to 1.21 meters. The head of infrastructure division of the bank Hongjoo Hahm said that tidal water, predicted to peak at 9:47 p.m. on June 3 and 10:24 p.m. on June 4, would hit coastal areas in north Jakarta.
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Hundreds of residents from the village of Kadokan, in Grogol, sub-district Sukoharjo in central Java are forced to evacuate because floods that have already inundated their houses is still getting worse. Villagers are forced to find shelter in the local mosque because their houses are flooded in over one meter of water. This flood is caused by high amounts of rainfall and rising waters in the Bengawan Solo river.
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The Ahmad Yani airport in Semarang, central Java, was forced to close down earlier on Tuesday. The runway of the airport was partially flooded with water up to ten centimeters. This caused the disruption of flights from and to the airport. The flights were diverted to the airport of Adi Sumarmo in Solo, also in central Java.
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The floods that hit the area of Pati, Central Java, cause the main road along the northern coast to be jammed with traffic. The road from Pati to Rembang is completely jammed. At Saturday the total traffic jam reached up to 20 kilometers. The road is flooded with half a meter to up to a meter of water. Many freight trucks and other vehicles haven't moved for two days now.
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The flooding in North Karawang, western Java, is still spreading. More than ten districts in Karawang have been flooded, among them villages and rice fields. Until now 17 out of 30 sub-districts have to deal with flooding, including the sub-districts of Rengasdengklok, Pakisjaya, Batujaya and Jakerta.
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PT Angkasa Pura II, the operator for Soekarno-Hatta international airport is ready to divert flights from the airport to the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in eastern Jakarta. This was announced by General Manager Edie Haryoto at the time the preparations were still ongoing earlier on Sunday. The airport will be used as an alternative for the time being because of floods at and around the Soekarno-Hatta international airport.
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According to the Flood Coordination Team of the Jakarta area, there were flood reported at 144 locations in the city. They all formed in less than two hours. Around 12:00 local time (GMT+7) yesterday afternoon there were floods on 70 locations in the city. Just two hours later there were 144 spots. This information was released by the head of the team, Bobby Aryono on Friday evening.
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A number areas in Jakarta has been flooded after heavy rains that started this morning. In Tanjung Duren, West Jakarta the water reached up to half a meter and at some distance from that location, water reaches 70 centimeters. Roads are completely blocked and cause gigantic traffic jams. The Permata Hijau housing complex in Southern Jakarta was flooded with some 40 centimeters of water.
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Floods have flooded dozens of homes in the city of Semarang. Heavy rain that hit the area since yesterday afternoon until yesterday evening was the cause of these floods which were mixed with mud as well. The flood originated from the Kaligarang river, which was already at a high level because of the heavy rainfall. The worst flood occurred in the sub-sub-district of Sukorejo in sub-district Gunungpati. Floodwaters here reached up to one meter. A part of the residents, mainly elderly and children, had to evacuate themselves to a mosque.
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Hundreds of houses in the city of Lamongan in eastern Java, were flooded earlier today. The floods were caused by two dams of a river nearby the village of Gedang broke. The dams broke because of heavy rainfall that occurred yesterday evening. This time the flood was worse than previous times the city has been flooded. The water levels reached as high as half a meter. The victims which had to evacuate themselves from their homes had to find place in homes of relatives and friends to shelter.
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It didn't get better when I carefully lifted the plastic flap and reached outside with my head. A driver on a motorbike which was in some kind of a hurry could hardly avoid me. In front of us a long row of red lights in the streets. Between the vehicles I could mainly see water and more nearby I heard the water gush out of the draining canal onto the pavement and the street. Ooh well, it must be raining heavily somewhere close, because it was quite an amount of water that came rushing towards us. Slowly the three wheels of the bajaj disappeared under water. I was hoping that the water would not reach too high at the end, because after over half an hour in this kind of transport, sitting becomes quite uncomfortable.
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All of a sudden I got a rush that I would be able to find a bajaj - a terrible orange noise factory on three wheels - driver who was to drive me around through these 'floods', the water was less than 30 centimeters high, so it didn't seem that terrible through my untrained eyes. My girlfriend wanted to join me as well, but not directly because she wanted to see it, but mainly because I had a stupid idea like this once again. Safety was the main reason I guess, however I would be able to save myself here. If water levels would reach high enough which was pretty unlikely given the fact that the sea was less than a kilometer away with a flat landscape - I would be able to swim home as well. That is the worse-case-scenario however, I prefer to stay as dry as possible.
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Traveling by minibus we arrived in Jakarta from Bandung with a large detour via Soekarno-Hatta International Airport we were dropped at our destination, a boarding house in Pluit, a neighborhood in the far north of Jakarta. A friend of us also stayed in the boarding house, so it seemed like a nice idea to spend several nights there, also because there was a nice shower and air-conditioning of course. Without both it would be a pretty sweaty adventure in the always sticky city of Jakarta. In this case preventing is better than having to look for a cure later on, so we preferred a room in the boarding house. After we dropped our bags we ate something, because lunch time had already passed. After lunch we had a quick look around to see where we had ended up after all.
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Thousands of hectares of rice paddies in fifteen sub-districts in the district of Bojonegoro, eastern Java, are destroyed or have rotten away because of flooding from the Bengawan Solo river. The area of rice paddies that has been completely destroyed is located in the sub-districts Purwosari, Kalitidu, Kapas and Truk. To prevent the losses from rising even further, a number of farmers decided to harvest the damaged crops any way.
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Already 23 residents from the district of Ngawi, eastern Java, have died as a result of the flooding of the Bengawan Solo river since a few days back. The regional disaster team in the district of Ngawi has said that most of the deceased were elderly. They probably died because they got sick soon after their houses were flooded by waters from the Bengawan Solo.
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On the first day of the new year it looks like that the residents of Muara Baru in North Jakarta have to prepare themselves for the worst. The flood waters, caused by high tides along the coast, again flooded their neighborhoods. Between this morning and this afternoon the water kept on rising. The water reached levels of 80 to 100 centimeters on main streets, included Jalan Muara Baru Raya.
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A part of the aid to people who are hit by floods in three sub-districts in the district of Bojonegoro, eastern Java, yesterday caused for some heated discussion, because there is a group of people which doesn't get any help. Based on information from reporters from Metro TV, people in the sub-district of Mojoanyar didn't get aid because they were not listed to receive it. They protested to the government employees at the spot. At the end they were registered and they were given a coupon to get some emergency help.
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The floods in the district of Bojonegoro, eastern Java, on Sunday expanded. Earlier 14 sub-districts were flooded around the city, but earlier today the city itself was partially flooded as well. As reported by a reporter for Metro TV, a number of main streets, including Jalan Gajah Mada, were submerged in floodwaters.
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The main road connecting Ngawi an Bojonegoro in the district Padangan in Ngawi is started to get flooded by waters from the Bengawan Solo river over a length of one kilometer. The water now reaches heights of half a meter. This causes flooding of some 14.000 homes in the district and forces thousands of people to be evacuated. The water level of the river rose even further on Friday morning, reaching 15.33 meter in Bojonegoro. The water-level is expected to rise even further.
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Thousands of residents of the districts of Genong and Kwadungan in Ngawi, eastern Java, are forced to spend the night on top of the roofs of their houses because of flooding. They can only wait for help there. The evacuation process is a slow one because there is a shortage of boats. Floods still inundate the area where waters reach heights of around three meters.
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Predictions of the Meteorological and Geophysics Office and the Oceanologic department of the Indonesian army that high waters were about to hit the area of North Jakarta proved to be correct. Earlier on Saturday the first indication of rising sea water could be seen in Muara Baru. Once again residents there had to move to higher grounds after the water level started to rise quickly. Normally the water starts to rise around 08:00 local time (GMT+7), but this time the water already started to rise three hours earlier. Within about one hour the flood occupied the entire area. Water levels are predicted to rise even further.
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The flood of seawater in Muara Baru, Penjaringan, North Jakarta gets worse again. Water levels in the area of Jalan Muara Baru Raya are rising. Flood waters entered the houses around 07:00 local time (GMT+7). The floodwaters hit over 800 houses with heights between 50 and 100 centimeters. Some of the houses were damaged when the flood occurred.
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After heavy rain fell down, a number of areas in Jakarta were flooded again. The bad condition of the drainage system caused flooding of some main streets with water as high as half a meter. In Petogogan, Kebayoran Baru in South Jakarta more than one hundred houses in fifteen areas were flooded. The water reached up to 60 centimeters after which it dropped with some 40 centimeters later today. According to local residents, the Petogogan area already is accustomed to flooding from the Kali Krukut river. The people here don't evacuate themselves until there is at least one meter of water in the streets and houses.
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Emergency repairs to a dam in Muara Karang, northern Jakarta, that earlier broke are still in progress. The dam is being closed with bags of sand. This dam was built to prevent high tides from entering the area, but now it has broken, hundreds of houses in the area are in around one meter of water.
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More than 30 scheduled domestic flights from Soekarno-Hatta international airport west of Jakarta were delayed today. This was caused by the fact that most passengers showed up late to board their plane because the main toll road to the airport was flooded by seawater due to high tides.
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A flood still covers hundreds of houses in the area of Kampung Sawah, Petogogan, Kebayoran Baru in Southern Jakarta. Heavy rains lashed the Jakarta area and rainwaters from Bogor caused the flooding which now already lasts for three days. In some places the water level reached half a meter. Residents are still in their houses until Sunday evening, but the water level is said to be still rising.
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Heavy rain since last week has inundated at least 3,600 houses and forced 14,400 people from 10 sub-districts in the Indonesian province of central Sulawesi to leave their homes. The most affected areas are Talise (Palu Selatan), Kolaka (Palu Barat) and Maesa (Palu Utara).
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Torrential rains triggered floods that inundated over 800 house, places of worship and schools in the subdistrict of Rejoso, Pasuruan. A number of water works overflowed because of the torrential downpours, flooding eight low-lying villages in the Rejoso subdistrict, as was told by Eka Wara Prihaspati, head of the subdistrict.
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Habitat for Humanity Indonesia has put its wheels into motion with a fast response to rehabilitate 1,000 flood-damaged homes in Jakarta in three months. HFH Indonesia kicked off the project on 17th February with the rehabilitation of five houses in Sukakarya, Bekasi, one of the most affected areas. This will involve mostly repairs of the houses' earth flooring. Come next week, Habitat will start rehabilitation works in Jakarta.
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This report has been prepared by the UN HC/RC Office in Indonesia based on information provided by the National Coordinating Board for the Management of Disaster (BAKORNAS PB), the Provincial Coordinating Unit for the Management of Disaster (SATKORLAK PB) Jakarta, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), and media reports.
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This report has been prepared by the UN HC/RC Office in Indonesia based on information provided by the National Coordinating Board for the Management of Disaster (BAKORNAS PB), the Provincial Coordinating Unit for the Management of Disaster (SATKORLAK PB) Jakarta, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), and media reports.
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Farmers living outside Indonesia's flood-hit capital said Monday they were struggling to survive after hundreds of square miles of land were inundated, destroying rice and other recently planted crops. With waters receding, many returned to their washed-out fields Monday to survey the damage.
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Floods which have inundated at least three Indonesian provinces including the capital Jakarta for more than a week have claimed 85 lives, officials said on Sunday. Nearly half a million people are still unable to return to their homes. The death toll rose by five after more deaths in West Java, said an official at the national disaster agency.
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The European Commission on February 7 said it was sending some 600,000 Euro in emergency aid to help the victims of ongoing floods in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta. EU funds will be used to provide some 340,000 most affected people with food, clean water, emergency shelter and health services.
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Tens of thousands of people remained camped out in shelters or under bridges in Indonesia's flood-hit capital yesterday, as authorities said they would spray the city with disinfectant to prevent the spread of disease.
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The UN HC/RC Office in Indonesia based on information provided by the National Coordinating Board for the Management of Disaster (BAKORNAS PB), the Provincial Coordinating Unit for the Management of Disaster (SATKORLAK PB) Jakarta, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), and media reports has prepared this report.
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Residents working in waist-high mud salvaged family photos from washed-out neighborhoods as fresh rains Thursday triggered more flooding, compounding the misery for hundreds of thousands forced from their homes. A week after the Indonesian capital was struck by the worst floods in recent memory, waters had receded in many middle-class districts, but conditions remained grim in narrow riverside alleys where the city's poor live.
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Deadly floods receded from much of the Indonesian capital Wednesday, leaving stinking debris blocking streets and a daunting cleanup for residents, many angry at the country's leaders following the latest in a string of disasters. "Every year the government promises there will be no more floods, but just look around you," said Endang Trisilowati as her children hauled sacks of black mud out of her house in downtown Jakarta. "I have to buy a new sofa, new beds, everything. It is a disgrace."
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Thousands of residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking garbage and mud. The death toll from the floods, the worst for at least five years, rose to 50 people, a health ministry official said.
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Flood waters receded in parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, but huge areas remained submerged heightening the risk of disease amid questions over why more had not been done to prevent the disaster. Businesses were also trying to assess the economic impact of the floods, which have caused blackouts, cut telecommunications and made many key roads impassable.
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Overnight downpours sent storm waters coursing back into some low-lying areas Tuesday, as authorities warned of the threat of diseases and anger mounted at the government's response to the disaster that has killed at least 44 people in the capital.
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The United Nations agencies stand ready to support the Government of Indonesia in response to the severe flooding that has affected the capital of Jakarta and surrounding areas in recent days.
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Flooding in Jakarta has affected around 75 percent of the city, an official said Monday as the death toll from the disaster hit 25. Some 340,000 others have been forced from their homes. Storm waters that inundated scores of residential areas and shopping districts late last week were still three meters deep in places, witnesses and an official say.
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High level of water from the ground and fast water flows have halted the efforts of rescuers to evacuate flood victims, who are still trapped on the roofs and second floors of their inundated houses in the capital.
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The Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) has warned Jakartans to expect another week of torrential rains that triggered massive flooding and paralyzed large parts of the city in the last two days. BMG climatologist Endro Santoso said the heavy rains that have pounded Jakarta over the last several days would likely continue for at least another week.
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This report has been prepared by the UN HC/RC Office in Indonesia based on information provided by the National Coordinating Board for the Management of Disaster (BAKORNAS PB), the Provincial Coordinating Unit for the Management of Disaster (SATKORLAK PB) Jakarta, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), and media reports.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday. Downpours over Jakarta weakened at the weekend, but heavy rain in upland areas sent more water into already swollen rivers criss-crossing the low-lying city.
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Flooding killed five people and more than 100,000 others were left homeless in the Indonesian capital, an official said Saturday as neck-high waters submerged large sections of the city.
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Torrential rain triggered floods in the capital, Jakarta, on Friday, blocking roads and trapping residents in their homes as torrents of muddy water reached a depth of 2m, police and witnesses said. Floods during the rainy season in Indonesia are common, but the heavy rains this week have caused chaos on roads and shut some train lines around Jakarta, police said.
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Massive flooding in Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's top two exporters of tropical timber, has forced timber prices up sharply, according to a new industry report. "The incessant rainfall and widespread flooding drove prices for Malaysian timber products sharply up," the International Tropical Timber Organisation was quoted by AFP as saying in its latest newsletter.
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Sangihe district in North Sulawesi province needs Rp 129.5 billion (11.0 million Euro) in funds to rehabilitate a number of facilities damaged in last Thursday`s landslides and flash floods. The head of Sangihe district, Winuslangi Salindeho, told ANTARA News, the rehabilitation will be carried out through urgent, short-term and middle-term programs. The urgent program itself will cost around Rp 29.5 billion (2.5 million Euro), he said.
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A landslide and floodwaters triggered by heavy rains barrelled into a village in northeastern Indonesia on Friday, killing 11 people and leaving more than 20 others missing, officials said. At least 64 houses and two churches were either swept away, buried or badly damaged on remote Sangihe Island, said Johannes Mongkaren, a local government disaster relief official.
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Thousands of villagers forced from their homes by floods in Indonesia have returned to begin cleaning up as neighbouring Malaysia braces for another deluge. More than 140 people were killed in the landslides and floods in Indonesia's Aceh and North Sumatra provinces. Officials say aid is getting through to many of those in need but heavy rain is still blocking shipments to some isolated areas.
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Rescuers reaching remote Indonesian villages for the first time since weeklong rains triggered floods and landslides said Friday that survivors are dehydrated and in desperate need of medical attention. The number of people killed stood at 126, with more than 400,000 displaced. In neighboring Malaysia, which is experiencing its most severe weather in a century, authorities found the body of a 14-year-old boy floating in a flood-swollen canal, bringing the tally of dead to 11. Nearly 90,000 have been displaced in Malaysia, where flood waters have caused nearly €15.2 million in damages. Both nations were bracing for continued rains throughout the weekend.
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A number of villages in Montallat sub district, Barito Utara District, Central Kalimantan Province, was inundated as Barito River overflowed following incessant downpours.
Floodwaters covered roads as high as 30 centimeters in Montallat, Bambang, Montallat resident, told ANTARA via phone on Thursday. "Floods have started on Tuesday (Dec. 26) and tend to continue raising," Bambang said.
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Deadly floodwaters in north-western Indonesia have begun to recede but authorities said on Tuesday at least 100 people had been killed and they were searching remote areas for up to 200 people still missing. Floods and subsequent landslides have killed at least 100 people in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces, with tens of thousands forced to flee their homes for higher ground, local officials said.
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A big rescue operation is under way in Indonesia to help survivors of the flash flooding in northern Sumatra. The floods have made hundreds of thousands of people homeless and washed away roads and bridges. The focus now is on evacuating those still trapped by floodwaters.
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Landslides killed 19 people at Mamurak Hill in Mandailing Natal district, North Sumatera province, Sunday night. Rescue workers with the help of local residents spent hours scouring the area for the bodies, according to Antara news agency Monday.
A spokesman of the Mandailing Natal district administration Faisal said light rains pounded the area overnight and caused the hill to suddenly slide down, burying 11 houses on its slope under the mud. At least six people were still missing in the area.
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Indonesia rushed tents, food and other emergency aid to flood-ravaged parts of Sumatra island on Monday while the United Nations pledged US$2 million (€1.5 million) for survivors. Soldiers loaded the aid into a military cargo plane in the capital, Jakarta.
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Save the Children is moving quickly to provide food, water, medicines, blankets, household supplies, and temporary shelter to thousands of families forced to flee their homes due to torrential rains that have flooded villages in Aceh province and North Sumatra, Indonesia. The severe floods are the latest catastrophe to befall children and families in a region of Indonesia devastated by the tsunami of December 26, 2004, one of worst natural disasters in modern history.
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The United Nations said it will provide an initial $2 million (€1.5 million) in emergency relief to the Indonesian province of Aceh, in response to this week's flash floods. Funding from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the U.N. said Sunday, will send relief aid to Aceh, where an estimated 170,000 people have been displaced by raging waters. Many of those affected are staying in tents or in public buildings.
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Severe flooding swept through three different provinces on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, leaving more than 80 people dead or missing and more than 200,000 villagers homeless, volunteers and news reports said Sunday. In Aceh province on the northern end of Sumatra, at least 65 people were either killed or missing in heavy flooding that swept through seven districts, said Gufron, a volunteer from the Prosperuos and Justice Party's local chapter.
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Raging flood waters Sunday submerged houses and roads on Indonesia's Sumatra island, killing more than 70 people and forcing tens of thousands from their homes, officials and reports said. The worst hit region was in Tamiyang district eastern Aceh province on the northern tip of the island, said Nurdin Jos, an Aceh government spokesman.
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Twenty-one people died in floods triggered by heavy rain in central Indonesia, the second such disaster in the sprawling nation in less than a week, state news agency Antara reported Monday. At least 20 others were missing after the floods tore through four villages on the small island of Laut, which lies off the southern tip of Borneo island, Antara quoted local officials as saying. Local authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
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The death toll from floods and landslides in eastern Indonesia province of South Sulawesi reached more than 280 on Sunday, with dozens of others still missing and thousands homeless, news reports said. The June 20 disaster was the latest tragedy to hit the world's vast archipelago nation, less then a month after a powerful earthquake that devastated the Javanese cultural city of Yogyakarta and nearby areas that killed 5,800.
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Helicopters dropped relief supplies on Sunday to thousands of victims of flooding and landslides on Sulawesi island, officials said. Some 10,000 people have been displaced following two days of torrential rain at the start of the week that flattened homes and turned swathes of land into vast lakes of water.
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At least 263 people have died since massive floods and landslides swept through several regencies in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province Wednesday, reports said Saturday. Sinjai regency was the worst hit by the disaster with death toll being confirmed at 248 as of Saturday, reported the national Antara news agency.
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The death toll climbed to 200 after flash floods and landslides swept through villages in the eastern Indonesian province of South Sulawesi, and left more than 130 others missing, officials said Thursday. 'The latest reports we've gotten from the field now show the death toll reached 200,' said Yustin, an official at the disaster task force, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa from the provincial capital of Makassar, about 1,400 kilometres northeast of Jakarta.
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The death toll from landslides and floods on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island this week has reached 188, and another 145 people are missing, an official said on Thursday. A search-and-rescue operation has been underway in South Sulawesi province after two days of heavy rain at the beginning of the week. Sinjai regency was the worst-hit area after flooding early on Tuesday, police and disaster officials say.
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Landslides and floods on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island have killed 65 people and the toll could rise, a police official said on Wednesday. A search-and-rescue operation was under way after two days of heavy rain in several areas in South Sulawesi province. Sinjai regency was the worst-hit area after major flooding early on Tuesday, rescuers and police said.
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At least 36 people, many of them children, have been killed and dozens were missing after flooding and landslides in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, police and residents said Tuesday. Incessant rains over the past two days inundated rice paddies and damaged hundreds of houses in five provincial districts in the central Indonesian region.
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Overnight flash flooding and landslides triggered by rains in Indonesia's densely-populated East Java have killed at least 23 people, the state Antara news agency said on Thursday. “Until noon (0500 GMT) we have registered 23 dead victims, with most killed in Bendungan sub-district," the head of Trenggalek district, Soeharto, was quoted as saying.
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A landslide in an unauthorised sand-digging location has killed 12 workers and injured two others in Indonesia's West Java province. The workers were collecting sand in a digging area in Cipatat district that had been shut down by local authorities when an avalanche of gravel came down on them.
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Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 24 people in the city of Manado, search and rescue officials said on Wednesday. The disaster occurred on Tuesday in the North Sulawesi provincial capital, where parts of the city were inundated with one-meter (three foot) high floodwaters after hours of rain.
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Floods and a mudslides that hit Indonesia's North Sulawesi province in the past week have killed 11 persons and left four others missing. The victims were residents of Manado city and Minahasa district,Antara news agency quoted a spokesperson of the North Sulawesi administration Aneke Rondonuwu as saying on Monday. The mudslides which struck Suluun village, Minahasa, on Feb. 13,killed a family of three.
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It was a bright Sunday in Semarang but the floodwaters from three days of heavy rain were still inundating most parts of the city, with Ahmad Yani Airport and Tawang railroad station still not fully back to normal. Garuda Indonesia's general manager in Semarang, Arjo K. Bardijan, said on Sunday that the airline was still transporting passengers scheduled to depart from Semarang to Adi Sumarmo Airport in the neighboring city of Surakarta.
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Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, where 40 percent of the city is below sea level, may receive 15 percent more rainfall in the next month raising the risk of floods. With 13 rivers flowing into the city of 9 million people, excess rainfall increases the danger of flooding because Jakarta's only flood canal hasn't the capacity to drain the water.
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Continuous rain during the past few days has flooded many villages in East Nusa Tenggara and Jambi, with waters more than a meter deep in some areas. Thirteen villages were affected by the flooding in Belu and the Rote Ndao regencies. In Rote Ndao a local wharf was destroyed by floodwaters.
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A flash flood inundated a village with 2 meters (6 feet) of water, killing three villagers and forcing hundreds to flee their homes on the Indonesian island of Lombok, a local official and media report said on Sunday. The flood in the Sambalia subdistrict also left six people missing, Kompas online reported on Sunday.
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The city administration plans to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems in flood-prone areas throughout the city to monitor water levels. The head of the Jakarta Natural Disaster Relief Body, Haryanto Bajuri, said the planned installation of the CCTV systems was part of the city's efforts to modernize its water level monitoring system.
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There are no floods in the city for months and then they happen all at once. In Jakarta, when it rains, it does indeed pour. The rain over the past week alerted people living on the banks of Ciliwung River to the possibility of floods. So, when the river -- which divides the sub-districts of Kampung Pulo, East Jakarta, and Bukit Duri, South Jakarta -- burst its banks at 5 a.m. on Friday, they were ready.
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At least 155 people died in two separate natural disasters that hit Indonesia's main island of Java last week, as authorities Monday decided to end the evacuation process amid worries that more deaths are unaccounted for. In the East Java town of Jember, where a flash flood and mudslide swept through four districts that left 79 people dead and displaced 7,605 others on Jan. 1, the local government ended the evacuation work and shifted focus on rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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Indonesian rescuers have ended days of searching for bodies buried in mud from landslides that hit two separate areas on Indonesia's Java island. The combined death toll from the disasters is 137. Soldiers, police and volunteers have toiled to clear mud and rubble of flattened homes in East Java and Central Java.
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Rescue workers carried on the grim task of searching for bodies today after pounding rains sent landslides crashing into several Indonesian villages, while the number of people listed as dead or missing fell to about 180. Authorities revised the figure after dozens of survivors were found to be staying with family or friends.
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Rescuers searched on Friday for more bodies buried under tonnes of mud after massive landslides in Indonesia, and the president said he would investigate whether environmental degradation was to blame. Soldiers and police used excavators to clear mud and logs off flattened homes after torrential rains sent landslides crashing into several villages on Java island this week. The combined official death toll stands at 120.
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Wielding a shovel, Neneng cleared the thick layer of mud from her house. "It's difficult to get rid of the mud. I am glad to have the help of my relatives," said Neneng, one of the survivors of the Jember flash floods on Sunday, the death toll of which climbed to 77 on Thursday. Neneng and her husband Syamsul Arifin said they had seen tons of mud cascading toward their house on Monday in Panti district, Jember regency, East Java.
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The death toll from flash floods that devastated villages in Indonesia's East Java province has risen to at least 77, as the search continued for more victims, officials said Thursday. A helicopter dropped food supplies and moved survivors as well as corpses from isolated, mud-soaked areas in Jember regency, local government spokesman Suhartomo said.
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Continuing bad weather and a lack of equipment are hampering rescue efforts in the Central Java village of Cijeruk, where a landslide has killed at least 14 people. It is feared the death toll from the pre-dawn landslide on Wednesday could rise as over 100 others are still trapped under debris. "Fourteen bodies have been evacuated but we estimate that 112 others are still buried in the mud," said Basuki, the secretary of the village that had a population of 655 prior to the disaster. Of its 144 houses, only 44 are left standing.
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Surviving from the grisly landslide disaster, frail Syamsuri can only hope and pray that his four children and three grandchildren are still alive. "I know the chances are slim because they are still buried in mud, but I will keep praying for them to be rescued," said the 70-year-old man through tears. Syamsuri said the disaster was so unexpected and stunning. He recalled how he was staying at the house of Juariyah, one of his daughters, when the disaster struck.
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Floods and landslides in Indonesia's Java island may have killed 377 people, government officials and the United Nations said. The estimate may rise as rescue workers search for survivors.
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