#flood mitigation

Collection of flood mitigation news, found 75 news.

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Fate of Jakarta's giant sea embankment as a flood barrier

A placard on the artificial island, Neeltje-Jans, the Netherlands, reads: "Hier gaan over het tij, de wind, de ...

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News Focus -- East Java accelerates flood mitigation efforts

Indonesia is currently transitioning from rainy to the dry season that usually begins in April or May. However, high ...

News focus - Government needs to ensure enough rice stocks by Andi Abdussalam

The government needs to take anticipatory steps in case of a possible scarcity of rice stocks ahead of the Christmas ...

Maluku promotes development cooperation in Netherlands

A group of delegates from Maluku held a business forum at the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague, the Netherlands, on ...

Indonesian students win gold medal at intl young inventors exhibition

Five Indonesian senior high school students won a gold medal and special awards at the International Exhibition for ...

Jakarta Looks At 1001 Ways To Prevent Flooding

Indonesias capital city, Jakarta, with a population of around 10 million, has suffered the brunt of annual flooding ...

Flooding spreads to wider areas in indonesia

In the past two weeks, floods and landslides have hit parts of Indonesia, particularly Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and ...

3,500 Indonesian police officers to be deployed at flood-hit areas

The Police Headquarters will deploy 3,500 police officers at several areas in Indonesian that have been hit by floods, ...

President urges regional governments to remain alert until March

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the regional governments to remain alert for potential natural ...

President Yudhoyono calls for optimum efforts to handle floods

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has appealed to all ministries and government institutions to use all their ...

Jakarta flood problem cannot be resolved overnight

The floods, which repeatedly strike Jakarta and its neighboring areas with sickening regularity almost every year, is ...

Indonesia suffers sixty floodings in a decade

Indonesia has suffered sixty times of floodings as shown by data collected over a last decade and is thus recorded as ...

Jakarta, there`s more rain coming

The people of Jakarta have become familiar with the so-called five-year flood cycle, but who would have thought that ...

Indonesia to draw foreign loans totaling Rp45.9 t in 2013

The Indonesian government plans to draw Rp45.9 trillion (US$4.88 billion) and pay Rp58.4 trillion in foreign debt ...

Jakarta to spend $190 mln on controlling floods

The Jakarta administration is planning to spend US$190 million on controlling floods in the capital under the Jakarta ...