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District government confirms 62 deaths in Flores Timur s flash floods
1st April 2021
1st April 2021 1 hour ago
A local resident witnesses the flash floods that damaged his Waiburak Village in Adonara Timur Sub-district, Flores Timur District, East Nusa Tenggara Province, on April 4, 2021. ANTARA FOTO/HO/Dok BPBD Flores Timur/wpa/foc. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Some 62 residents of Flores Timur District in East Nusa Tenggara Province lost their lives in flash floods, triggered by heavy rains, that lashed the areas of nine villages on Sunday.
Some 56 of the 62 flood victims were the residents of Nelelalamadike Village in Ileboleng Sub-district, Deputy Head of Flores Timur District Agus Payong Boli stated.
Aceh s struggle to bring foreign tourist arrivals back on track
1st April 2021
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Rubiah Ile s beach, Sabang, Aceh Province . (23/3/2021). (ANTARA/Arnidhya Nur Zhafira.)
Bali s number of new confirmed cases, counted on a daily basis, has shown a downward trend since the imposition of this PPKM Mikro policy Indonesia remains in grip of the global pandemic of novel coronavirus that has severely hit its economy but the government is striving to win the fight against it through a national vaccination program.
In pushing down the country s infection rate, the central and regional governments also continue their collaborative prevention measures, including imposition of micro-scale public activity restrictions (PPKM-Mikro).
Thousands of houses still submerged in Indonesia
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Thousands of houses still submerged in Indonesia. Image Source: IANS News
Jakarta, April 4 : Thousands of houses still remain submerged by floods in Indonesia s East Java province, but the waters have been receding and a number of evacuees returned home, according to the National Disaster Management Agency.
Agency spokesman Raditya Jati on Saturday said houses in Pasuruan district were still inundated with flood waters, reports Xinhua news agency. The water level now is around 20 to 50 cm high. Yesterday it reached 80 cm high, Jati noted.
He said it rained heavily on Friday, causing the Wrati, Patuk, and Kedung Larangan rivers to overflow.
Thousands of houses still remain submerged by floods in Indonesia s East Java province, but the waters have been receding and a number of evacuees returned home, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. Agency spokesman Raditya Jati on Saturday said houses in Pasuruan district were still inundated with flood waters, reports Xinhua news agency. The water level now is around 20 to 50 cm high. Yesterday it reached 80 cm high, Jati noted. He said it rained heavily on Friday, causing the Wrati, Patuk, and Kedung Larangan rivers to overflow. As of Friday, 11,880 people had been displaced, and some have returned homes now.