Press Review for November 2007

(Baca Versi Bahasa Indonesia)

Jakarta has started to prepare itself for flood. Since November 6^th, flood has occur in 4 areas ofEast Jakarta, namely Kampung Melayu, Bidara Cina, Cawang, and Kramat Jati. No evacuation has been conducted. On November 19^th, following the massive rain in Jakarta and “water shipment” from Bogor and Depok has widen the flooded area in Jakarta. In Kampung Melayu, Bukit Duri, and Petogogan, flood has reach 1 – 1.5 meters high. Not only in Jakarta, several other provinces has also experience flooding. It was recorded that Riau, Central Java, Papua New Guinea, South Kalimantan, North Sumatera, and Banten were also flooded in several areas.

On disease issue, diarrhea attack North Jakarta area. Unsterilized mineral water was suspected to be the cause. A number of 113 people were infected and 7 of them even died. Avian Influenza was still occurring. Another death occurs in Riau and Tangerang. From DIY, dengue was recorded to take at least 10 lives per year. In Magelang, the Health Office has increase their preparedness due to increase of dengue case in the there area. Other disease-related topic in highlight this month are extraordinary occurrence of Anthrax in Kotabaru, Ende NTT, Malaise killed 17 people in NTB during 2007, extraordinary occurrence of Chikunguya in Purwakarta, and Health Office of Sumenep found 50 cases of malnutrition.

Earth Quake in Dompu, NTB killed at least 6 people, injured hundreds of people, and causing damage up to 70 billion IDR. Bengkulu was also experiencing earthquake on Tuesday Morning November 6th 2007, November 11th, November 17th, and November 29th 2007. While massive rain has caused landslide in Banjarnegara, Kebumen, and Banyumas. Two people were reported to be dead. Landslide was also happened in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. Hurricane phenomenon still occurs in Semarang Central Java, Pati, and Sidoarjo.

International news, death victims of Sidr Hurricane in Bangladesh has reached 1800 people. The number was later on revised by Bangladesh Red Crescent to be 10.000 people. In Dominika, Noel Storm has killed 81 people, Titag Storm in Philippine killed 10 people, earthquake in Niigata Japan killed 6 people, and humanitarian crisis in Somalia has caused 88.000 people flles from their home.