E. Java floods kill three, paralyze regency
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E. Java floods kill three, paralyze regency
E. Java floods kill three, paralyze regency
Rain-triggered flash floods have claimed three lives, forced thousands of people from their homes, paralyzed public services and isolated much of Pasuruan regency in East Java, officials said Thursday.
Pasuruan Regent Jusbakir Aljufri said widespread flooding occurred after the three main rivers in the regency burst their banks following heavy rain from Wednesday evening.
The flooding, which officials have described as the worst in 15 years, has damaged thousands of homes and inundated large numbers of fishponds. In some areas, floodwaters have reached 1.5 meters high, inundating shops and houses and forcing students at one Islamic boarding school to abandon their mascot, an endangered Sumatran tiger, in its cage (see photos).
The floods destroyed two bridges on highways linking Pasuruan, Surabaya and Bali, bringing traffic to a standstill for more than six hours.
Total losses from the disaster have been estimated at about Rp 6 billion (US$650,000).
Regent Jusbakir said the unchecked conversion of forested hills into farms in the regency, about an hour's drive south of Surabaya, was partly to blame for the floods.
"Public offices were closed because many of them were inundated and employees had to save documents and clean up their workplaces," he said during a briefing with East Java Governor Imam Utomo.
Imam promised financial assistance of between Rp 3 million and Rp 15 million for each resident whose home was damaged or destroyed in the disaster. He also offered 300 tons of rice to help feed displaced flood victims and 12 dinghies to assist in rescue efforts.
A spokesman for the Pasuruan regency administration, Soenarto, identified the dead as Fahrizi, 16, who was electrocuted; Rupiana, 70, who was crushed by a falling cabinet; and Slamet, 69, who drowned.
Bron: Jakarta Post
Rain-triggered flash floods have claimed three lives, forced thousands of people from their homes, paralyzed public services and isolated much of Pasuruan regency in East Java, officials said Thursday.
Pasuruan Regent Jusbakir Aljufri said widespread flooding occurred after the three main rivers in the regency burst their banks following heavy rain from Wednesday evening.
The flooding, which officials have described as the worst in 15 years, has damaged thousands of homes and inundated large numbers of fishponds. In some areas, floodwaters have reached 1.5 meters high, inundating shops and houses and forcing students at one Islamic boarding school to abandon their mascot, an endangered Sumatran tiger, in its cage (see photos).
The floods destroyed two bridges on highways linking Pasuruan, Surabaya and Bali, bringing traffic to a standstill for more than six hours.
Total losses from the disaster have been estimated at about Rp 6 billion (US$650,000).
Regent Jusbakir said the unchecked conversion of forested hills into farms in the regency, about an hour's drive south of Surabaya, was partly to blame for the floods.
"Public offices were closed because many of them were inundated and employees had to save documents and clean up their workplaces," he said during a briefing with East Java Governor Imam Utomo.
Imam promised financial assistance of between Rp 3 million and Rp 15 million for each resident whose home was damaged or destroyed in the disaster. He also offered 300 tons of rice to help feed displaced flood victims and 12 dinghies to assist in rescue efforts.
A spokesman for the Pasuruan regency administration, Soenarto, identified the dead as Fahrizi, 16, who was electrocuted; Rupiana, 70, who was crushed by a falling cabinet; and Slamet, 69, who drowned.
Bron: Jakarta Post
Every cloud has a silver lining
Indonesia floods kill 12, cause travel chaos
Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 12 people across Indonesia and the capital's main airport was briefly shut on Friday as more than 40 flights were delayed due to low visibility. Scores of cars were stranded and people had to wade through murky knee-high water in many parts of Jakarta, a city of 14 million that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year.
Jakarta's main airport had been forced to close on Friday morning, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 yards, Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno Hatta airport, said. More than 40 flights had been delayed, with some planes diverted to Jakarta's smaller Halim airport, while several flights coming to the capital were forced to return to Singapore.
"The airport has reopened since three o'clock (3:00 a.m. EST)", Hariyanto, who uses only one name, said later by telephone.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was forced to abandon his bullet-proof presidential car after his motorcade tried to pass through knee-high flood waters in the capital. The president's security escort had to usher Yudhoyono into a sport utility vehicle after his Mercedes Benz got stuck on a main road about 1.2 miles from the presidential palace.
Last year about 50 people died in Jakarta, many due to electrocution, and more than 400,000 people were displaced after days of heavy rain.
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Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 12 people across Indonesia and the capital's main airport was briefly shut on Friday as more than 40 flights were delayed due to low visibility. Scores of cars were stranded and people had to wade through murky knee-high water in many parts of Jakarta, a city of 14 million that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year.
Jakarta's main airport had been forced to close on Friday morning, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 yards, Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno Hatta airport, said. More than 40 flights had been delayed, with some planes diverted to Jakarta's smaller Halim airport, while several flights coming to the capital were forced to return to Singapore.
"The airport has reopened since three o'clock (3:00 a.m. EST)", Hariyanto, who uses only one name, said later by telephone.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was forced to abandon his bullet-proof presidential car after his motorcade tried to pass through knee-high flood waters in the capital. The president's security escort had to usher Yudhoyono into a sport utility vehicle after his Mercedes Benz got stuck on a main road about 1.2 miles from the presidential palace.
Last year about 50 people died in Jakarta, many due to electrocution, and more than 400,000 people were displaced after days of heavy rain.
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Indonesia cleans up after floods, 3 die in Jakarta
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's capital was cleaning up on Saturday after several days of torrential rain engulfed parts of the city with up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) of water, killing three people and displacing around 7,000, a health official said. The rains, which also caused serious travel chaos and closed the capital's main airport for several hours, had stopped in Jakarta on Saturday but some areas of the city remained under water. "We can confirm three people were killed in West Jakarta after being washed away by the current," Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said by telephone. Pakaya said that 6,820 people were still in shelters across Jakarta, a city of 14 million that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year.
Jakarta's main airport had briefly been forced to shut on Friday, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 meters, delaying more than 40 flights. "It is back to normal, some delayed flights from yesterday have already departed," Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno-Hatta airport, said. The main airport toll road was still partly closed, he added. Floods and landslides also hit other parts of Java Island, as well as Sulawesi Island and Sumatra Island this week, killing at least 12 people, but the situation had improved in most areas, Pakaya said.
Bron: Reuters | Gewijzigd: 2 februari 2008, 12:37 uur, door Marga
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's capital was cleaning up on Saturday after several days of torrential rain engulfed parts of the city with up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) of water, killing three people and displacing around 7,000, a health official said. The rains, which also caused serious travel chaos and closed the capital's main airport for several hours, had stopped in Jakarta on Saturday but some areas of the city remained under water. "We can confirm three people were killed in West Jakarta after being washed away by the current," Rustam Pakaya, head of the health ministry's crisis centre, said by telephone. Pakaya said that 6,820 people were still in shelters across Jakarta, a city of 14 million that is regularly hit by floods at this time of year.
Jakarta's main airport had briefly been forced to shut on Friday, after rain and fog slashed visibility to less than 300 meters, delaying more than 40 flights. "It is back to normal, some delayed flights from yesterday have already departed," Hariyanto, an official at Soekarno-Hatta airport, said. The main airport toll road was still partly closed, he added. Floods and landslides also hit other parts of Java Island, as well as Sulawesi Island and Sumatra Island this week, killing at least 12 people, but the situation had improved in most areas, Pakaya said.
Bron: Reuters | Gewijzigd: 2 februari 2008, 12:37 uur, door Marga
Every cloud has a silver lining
Drie doden en 1.500 slachtoffers bij overstromingen Jakarta
Overstromingen hebben in de Indonesische hoofdstad Jakarta al aan minstens drie mensen het leven gekost en 1.500 slachtoffers gemaakt. Dat meldden de reddingsdiensten en het ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Na een dag en een nacht regenen stond het water in de straten van Jakarta vandaag 70 centimeter hoog. De weg naar de internationale luchthaven moest worden afgesloten. Zowel de sloppenwijken, industriezones, zakenwijken en residentiële wijken zijn getroffen.
"De overstromingen hebben het economische netwerk van de stad volledig geblokkeerd", aldus The Jakarta Post. De verliezen zouden naar schatting in de miljoenen dollars lopen. Jakarta loopt regelmatig onder tijdens piek van het regenseizoen (januari/februari). Vorig jaar vielen toen bij overstromingen minstens 85 doden en een half miljoen slachtoffers
Bron: HLN | Gewijzigd: 24 april 2017, 10:56 uur, door Joyce.s
Overstromingen hebben in de Indonesische hoofdstad Jakarta al aan minstens drie mensen het leven gekost en 1.500 slachtoffers gemaakt. Dat meldden de reddingsdiensten en het ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Na een dag en een nacht regenen stond het water in de straten van Jakarta vandaag 70 centimeter hoog. De weg naar de internationale luchthaven moest worden afgesloten. Zowel de sloppenwijken, industriezones, zakenwijken en residentiële wijken zijn getroffen.
"De overstromingen hebben het economische netwerk van de stad volledig geblokkeerd", aldus The Jakarta Post. De verliezen zouden naar schatting in de miljoenen dollars lopen. Jakarta loopt regelmatig onder tijdens piek van het regenseizoen (januari/februari). Vorig jaar vielen toen bij overstromingen minstens 85 doden en een half miljoen slachtoffers
Bron: HLN | Gewijzigd: 24 april 2017, 10:56 uur, door Joyce.s
Every cloud has a silver lining
Flood waters down, but city still on alert
Despite clear weather and receding waters on Saturday, the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency says Jakarta resident should brace for more floods before the end of the month. The agency has predicted cloudy skies and heavy, prolonged rainfall in the coming weeks.
"The rains we had recently were caused by a weather pattern called the Madden-Julian oscillation, which increases the possibility of massive rains that may last from three up to four days," the agency's head of research and development, Mezak Arnold Ratag, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
The pattern, he said, usually affects weather in a region from 30 to 40 days. Mezak said that flooding could also occur due to rainfall in upstream areas such as Bogor and Depok.
"In such cases, Jakarta would be heavily flooded again because the excess water would flow into the city," he said.
Mezak said the city would have been in a better situation this month if it had prepared its drainage system earlier. The Jakarta Police's Traffic Management Center said that the number of flooded areas had dropped from 140 to 27 by Saturday. Many people have returned to the houses they left to the waters on Friday.
Residents of Kampung Pulo in East Jakarta, which was inundated up to 1.5 meters deep in parts on Friday, have begun cleaning up their homes. Mohammad Harris, a Kampung Pulo community unit chief, said that they were still ready for more floods.
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Despite clear weather and receding waters on Saturday, the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency says Jakarta resident should brace for more floods before the end of the month. The agency has predicted cloudy skies and heavy, prolonged rainfall in the coming weeks.
"The rains we had recently were caused by a weather pattern called the Madden-Julian oscillation, which increases the possibility of massive rains that may last from three up to four days," the agency's head of research and development, Mezak Arnold Ratag, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
The pattern, he said, usually affects weather in a region from 30 to 40 days. Mezak said that flooding could also occur due to rainfall in upstream areas such as Bogor and Depok.
"In such cases, Jakarta would be heavily flooded again because the excess water would flow into the city," he said.
Mezak said the city would have been in a better situation this month if it had prepared its drainage system earlier. The Jakarta Police's Traffic Management Center said that the number of flooded areas had dropped from 140 to 27 by Saturday. Many people have returned to the houses they left to the waters on Friday.
Residents of Kampung Pulo in East Jakarta, which was inundated up to 1.5 meters deep in parts on Friday, have begun cleaning up their homes. Mohammad Harris, a Kampung Pulo community unit chief, said that they were still ready for more floods.
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