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'No warnings': Powerful cyclone exposes Indonesia's lack of preparedness


No warnings : Powerful cyclone exposes Indonesia s lack of preparedness
Reuters
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FILE PHOTO: Flash floods triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in East Flores
By Emanuel Dile Bataona and Agustinus Beo Da Costa
LEMBATA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Gregorius Hide, a 70-year-old farmer in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, said the only warning he had of an approaching swirl of muddy water that engulfed his district this week was a smell of wet earth shortly before it hit.
Tropical cyclone Seroja, one of the most powerful cyclones ever to hit Indonesia, struck on Sunday killing 163 people, mostly on the islands of Lembata, Alor and Adonara, among the poorest and least developed parts of Indonesia. ....

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Anger after Indonesia offers Elon Musk Papuan island for SpaceX launchpad


But Papuans on Biak are fiercely opposed, arguing a space launchpad will drive deforestation, increase Indonesian military presence, and threaten their future on the island. A tribal chief on the island, Manfun Sroyer, said he feared Papuans will be forced from their homes.
“This spaceport will cost us our traditional hunting grounds, damaging the nature our way of life depends on. But, if we protest, we’ll be arrested immediately.”
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, also aims to develop a large rocket launch site on Biak island by 2024.
“In 2002, Russians wanted our land for satellite launches. We protested and many were arrested and interrogated… now they’ve brought it back, and this harassment and intimidation is still going on,” Manfun Sroyer said. ....

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