He said the meeting was scheduled to start 2 on Friday afternoon at presidential office.
"The president will chair the meeting to discuss ways to anticipate climate change," Julian said, adding that besides giving directives, President Yudhoyono would also listen to an explanation from Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) official at the meeting.
According to Julian, BMKG has predicted that extreme weather would happen in a number of areas across Indonesia in the days to come.
In Jakarta alone the extreme weather has been felt in the past few days when it was cloudy sometimes and at a certain time a heavy rain could occur.
Extreme weather was also predicted to happen in Yogyakarta until the rainy season reached its peak in January 2012.
Yogyakarta BMKG spokesman Toni Agus Wijaya said the extreme weather at the beginning of rainy season would happen sporadically at certain times in Yogyakarta.
He said extreme weather would happen if the intensity of rainfall in a day could reach 50 millimeter per day with wind velocity of 40 km per hour and the minimum air temperature is 5 Celsius degrees lower than the normal condition.
(Uu.O001/HAJM)
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