INDONESIA LANDSLIDES

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INDONESIA LANDSLIDES

• JANUARY 3, 2006

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INDONESIA LANDSLIDES
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INDONESIAS HAZARD ENVIRONMENT

• Heavy tropical downpours cause dozens of
  landslides and flash floods each year in
  Indonesia, where millions of people live in
  mountainous regions and near fertile flood plains
  close to rivers.

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INDONESIA LANDSLIDES

• Landslides triggered by monsoon rains during the
  week killed or left as missing more than 170
  people on Indonesia's Java island.
• At least 100 were buried beneath tons of mud and
  rock in a single village in Cjernuk early
  Wednesday morning.

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CJERNUK, INDONESIA
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FLASH FLOODING

• Earlier in the week, more than 70 people were
  killed by flash flooding in nearby Jember.