Disaster From Behind The Cofeeplants

More destruction is likely to hit villages in Java, with floods and landslides caused by massive deforestation of the island.

January 10, 2006

The whirring sounds of the helicopter broke the still of the morning on Mt. Hyang Argopuro. From aboard the aircraft two men looked down on the destruction below -- houses swept down the hills and buried under a sea of mud. The sight was heartbreaking for Forestry Minister M.S. Kaban and Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar as they surveyed the devastation caused by flash floods and mudslides which struck villages in Jember, East Java, last we

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