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Jokowi presses for easier public access to BMKG s forecast, warnings
1st April 2021 2 hours ago
People evacuated victims of the flash flood in East Adonara, East Florest District of East Nusa Tenggara on Monday (April 5, 2021). ANTARA PHOTO/Pion Ratuloli/wpa/wsj Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has sought easier public access to weather forecast and warnings of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) to increase awareness on potential disasters.
At an online limited meeting on natural disaster in West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara from the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta, on Tuesday, Jokowi remarked that all regional leaders and the public should be able to access and monitor the weather forecast issued by the BMKG.
Tropical cyclone Seroja gathers strength as it heads towards WA
Western Australians have been warned of a strengthening tropical cyclone heading towards them from Indonesian waters.
Tropical Cyclone Seroja formed near the Timor Island north of Western Australia in the early hours of Monday morning, Weatherzone meteorologist
 Joel Pippard said.
Earlier today, Seroja was producing winds of up to 100km/h and is expected to gain strength as it tracks down parallel to the WA coast later this week.
A image showing the projected path of the cyclone.(Bureau of Meteorology)
The system had a high chance of becoming at least a category 3 severe tropical cyclone by Wednesday and possibly becoming a category 4 later on, Mr Pippard said.
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