Indonesia Heading for Disaster in 2050
May 19, 2008, 6:25 pm
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TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Indonesia should reduce its energy consumption or a large disaster will occur in 2050. The use of energy is alleged as the main cause of earth’s temperature rise of 6.4 celcius degree over the last century.
“The year 2050 will be critical ,” said State Minister for the Environment, Rahmat Witoelar in a general lecture on climate change and sustainable development at the Faculty of Social and Political Science (FISIP) University of Indonesia, today.
Rahmat quoted a conclusion from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) saying that the increase of global temperature since the 20th century is caused mainly by the increased concentration of green house gases because of human activity.
He explained that because of the temperature increases, seven large rivers in the world will be dried out, including the Ganges river in India and Yellow River in China.
He added that the access road to Soekarno-Hatta airport will be flooded permanently due to global warming.
To slow the global warming process, Rahmat recommended a ‘green’ lifestyle for Indonesia, by reducing electricity and fuel usage. “I suggest the government and building providers in Jakarta to design skyscrapers that are energy-save friendly,” said Rahmat.
Rainstrom hits Indonesia, hundreds of houses damaged
March 31, 2008, 1:02 pm
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Storm Jambi (ANTARA News) – At least one people was reportedly killed and hundreds of houses were destroyed as rainstorm, accompanied by lighting and thunder, swept through Jambi on Sunday.
Jambi municipal spokesman Jhon Eke Powa said here on Monday that the four-hour windstorm which started at 4 pm until 8 pm on Sunday evening destroyed at least 118 houses, uprooted a number of trees, and cut off electrical power across the city of Jambi.
He said the power failure caused a period of power blackout across the city for over eight hours.
“A construction worker at a shopping center who was hit by fallen debris was rushed to a nearby hospital but he breathed his last before reaching the hospital,” Jhon Eke Powa said, adding that the identity of the fatality was still unclear.
He added that Jambi city mayor had ordered the heads of sub-districts to go to the field and collected data about material loss and other possible fatalities. (*)
Breaking Emergency in Indonesia : Natural Disasters
March 24, 2008, 12:17 pm
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