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Residents in 13 villages hit by drought in Kemalang district, Klaten, Central Java, have started to buy clean water. The villages’ remote locations and considerable geographical challenges have caused the price of clean water to skyrocket up to Rp 300,000 (US$22.49) per 5,000-liter tank.
Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors have demanded that corruption defendant and non-active Klaten regent Sri Hartini be sentenced to 12 years in prison. Sri has been indicted for allegedly receiving millions of rupiah in bribes and unlawful gifts from school principals and village heads in the regency.
Amid rampant reports of alleged corruption involving the Village Fund, Ponggok in Klaten, Central Java, is an example of a financially independent village, even before it was slated to receive funds from the government program aimed at improving the welfare of Indonesia’s rural residents.
Sitting to the side of a slanted potter’s wheel, the woman's hands skillfully shape the clay atop a spinning base. Simultaneously, her foot moves a rope cast over a bamboo support structure and around the axel of the wheel. It is the continuous movement of her foot that spins the wheel head.
