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The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) warned on Tuesday that people should remain alert for more landslides in the country as about 40 million citizens, 17 percent of the population, live in landslide-prone areas.
Regencies in Riau have been hit with flooding since mid-February, with at least four lives claimed. Fernando, 20, a resident of Pelalawan regency, died when crossing the overflowing Nilo River on March 2, while Suguh, 11, a resident of Kampar, drowned in the Sebayang River on March 3.
The ferry from Kali Adem Port in Penjaringan that exploded on its way to Tidung Island in North Jakarta on Sunday morning might have been carrying passengers beyond its capacity as the rescue team tasked with sorting through the wreckage has found more bodies than expected.
Living in a country prone to natural disasters, Indonesians will have to deal with life-threatening psychosocial problems that require great effort to reduce post-traumatic stress disorders, psychiatrists said in Jakarta on Monday.
Flooding hit two villages in Central and West Lombok regencies, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) after a full day of heavy rain of Sunday, inundating at least 300 houses and displacing 500 people. Floodwater also damaged crops on more than 120 hectares of farmland.
As the search for survivors ground on, Premier Matteo Renzi pledged new money and measures Thursday to rebuild quake-devastated central Italy amid mounting soul-searching over why the seismic-prone country has continually failed to ensure its buildings can withstand such catastrophes.
