Crisis, What Crisis?

Parts of the East Nusa Tenggara community who are suffering a food crisis have begun to consume cattle feed. Nonetheless, the government is yet to feel worried.

March 29, 2005

WITH his hands, Yunep Nomsea, 38, deftly peeled the roasted tamarind seeds. The resident of Tua Pakas village, Koalin, South Central Timor, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), was watched by his two children, Orlin, 2, and Defrit, 4. Once in a while, the two children picked up some tamarind fruit and tried to emulate their father. In the house, Yunep's wife, Njeme Taupan, 24, was breast-feeding the couple's youngest child, Jifran Namsoe, who was only 45

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