Permanent Disaster

The cycle of drought, food shortage, floods, and landslides continues in East Nusa Tenggara in ever-increasing frequency.

June 5, 2007

THE climate change brought by El Nino is expected to bring even more drought in Indonesia this year. A government report titled Climate Variability and Climate Change and Their Implications in Indonesia, issued early last May, said one of the areas most vulnerable to the climate change is the Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

Last month a food shortage was reported in the northern coast of North Central Timor district because of crop failures. Som

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