The water dumped from Bekasi River Dam on Tuesday has caused the area to be flooded even more. As many as seven Sub districts where the water level has dropped rose again until yesterday. Head of Disaster Relief Agency for the Regency of Bekasi, Sahat Banjar Nahor, said the seven sub districts are Muaragembong, Cabangbungin, Babelan, […]
Flooding isolated at least 35 people of 10 families in Kampung Baru, Mulyasari Village, Pamanukan, Subang regency, West Java. Since yesterday, they have been evacuated to a nearby Islamic school. “We need aid, food, clothing and medical supplies,” said a resident.
The residents of Dawuhan Kulon village, Banyumas, Central Java have been restless about the appearance of an allegedly Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas). Central Java Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) has started the monitoring to prevent further human-leopard conflict that might happen. “We were patrolling around the village on Thursday night to make sure the story […]
Thick volcanic ash damaged dozens of houses in a village and began blanketing cities in North Sumatra on Saturday due to continuous eruptions at Mount Sinabung. “Volcanic ash from an eruption that occurred on Friday caused several houses to collapse,” Sinabung Disaster Mitigation Media Center coordinator Jhonson Tarigan said as quoted by Antara news agency on […]
Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Chief, Mulyono Prabowo, said that there was a chance of a tropical cyclone developing in the Nusa Tenggara region for approximately the next two days. “If there was a tropical cyclone, there would be strong winds and torrential rains,” he said at a press conference, Friday, January 10, at […]
The rain that was coming late this season was assumed to be the cause of the recent monkey invasions into some farmlands in Ponjong district, Gunungkidul regency, Yogyakarta. “The monkeys invaded the farmlands because they ran out of food resources on the hills, many plantations were withered since there was no rain,” said the District Head […]
A number of hotels in Karo regency, North Sumatra, are offering special packages to foreign and domestic tourists following the slump due to the impact of the Mount Sinabung volcano, which is till emitting clouds of ash and hot dust. The hotel operators are offering discounts of between 30 and 65 percent of their normal rates.
Fishermen from Lamalera Village, Wulandoni, East Nusa Tenggara, managed to take home three whales on Thursday. Mikael Radjamuda Bataona, a local resident, mentioned that fishermen scrambled on a hunt, after the three whales were sighted in Lamalera waters. Whale hunting has been Lamalera’s tradition for generations. Lamalera villagers usually perform a traditional ritual before waging the […]
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has instructed all relevant ministries, government institutions, local disaster mitigation agencies and the Karo regency administration in North Sumatra to prepare for a worst-case scenario following an increase in Mount Sinabung’s volcanic activity during the past week. The worst-case scenario would be applied if the evacuation zone reaches between 7.5 […]
Karo residents in North Sumatra received an unpleasant surprise on the first day of the year when Mount Sinabung spewed 3 kilometers of volcanic ash on Wednesday noon. An official at the Sinabung monitoring post, Ahmad Nabawi, said a stronger volcanic ash discharge could occur as the volcano continued to generate huge volumes of lava.
