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View all search resultsAfter days of bad weather last week initially impeded relief efforts, authorities said they have managed to deliver some 5.2 tonnes of food aid and emergency kit to drought-stricken Agandugume district in Central Papua.
Authorities and experts assure that the Indonesian rice reserve will last until the end of the year despite potential global inflation resulting from India’s export bans and El Niño, the latter of which will affect next year’s stock.
With temperatures in the country expected to rise up to five times the average as El Niño returns, the Health Ministry is ramping up measures including larvae monitoring and mapping as well as public awareness campaigns to prevent an increase in dengue cases.
The hotter El Niño climate pattern is back after three years and while it threatens to bring with it extreme weather events, several meteorological agencies have suggested this week that Indonesia is likely to be at relatively moderate risk from such events, due to variables ranging from sunspots to sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Indian Ocean.
The government is making preparations to counter the human and economic costs of this year’s El Niño weather phenomenon, which will likely bring more extensive dry spells to the country and affect the prices and availability of key commodities.
The La Niña weather phenomenon, which is associated with intense rainfall in Indonesia, is expected to wane after the first few months of this year, a scientist has said, as the global climate cycle is projected to transition into El Niño in the second half of 2022.
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