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Article: INDONESIA EXPERIENCES 135 ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS IN 2006.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2007
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Denpasar, Bali Province, Jan 8 (ANTARA) - Indonesia experienced 135 ecological disasters during the year 2006 due to forest and environmental degradation. "The disasters started with floods and landslides in Jember, East Java, on January 1, 2006, and closed with floods and landslides in northern Aceh which forced some 70,000 to evacuate to safer areas at the end of last year," Executive Director of Walhi (Indonesian Environmental Forum) Chalid Muhammad said in Sanur, Bali Province on Monday. Over the last five year, the impacts of environmental damages had increased three times, Muhammad said in a seminar organized by the Democrat Party. The ecological ...