Indonesia: Floods and Landslides - Dec 2007 Updates

The Humanitarian Response Fund (HRF) is an NGO funding mechanism managed by OCHA that aims to provide immediate funds to respond to short-term humanitarian needs triggered by conict or natural...

Four years has passed since the 26 December 2004 Boxing Day that the South Asia Tsunami claimed over 200,000 lives in Indonesia alone. HOPE worldwide mobilized relief efforts within days, and still...

Executive summary The International Federation will continue to work with the Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia/PMI) on harmonizing the PMI across the country and delivering integrated...

Yogyakarta, October 2008: The Yogyakarta Affiliate has expanded working areas to Solo, Central Java, which is approximately one hour drive from Yogyakarta. The initial project of HFH Indonesia in...

Introduction With half a century of existence and extensive worldwide operational experience, IOM has become the leading Intergovernmental Organization working with migrants and governments to...

This report covers the period 1 January to 30 June 2008. In brief Programme purpose: The purpose of the International Federation country office programme is to support the institutional capacity...

JAKARTA, Apr 7, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Indonesian rescuers on Monday recovered seven bodies from a river in West Java province after the Sunday's flash flood that slammed into a boat carrying 13...

Each week, the World Health Organization Health Action in Crises in Geneva produces information highlights on critical health-related activities in countries where there are humanitarian crises...

What's a little bit of water, right? But when a little rain, which is often initially welcomed, comes day after day and week after week - the water does become a problem. It drowns and rots the...

Date of Incident Sunday, 23 March 2008, at about 10:00 hours local time. General Information Heavy torrential rain down poured Pekanbaru areas since 15th of March 2008 has caused flooding in some...

Date of Incident Wednesday, 26 March 2008, at about 10:00 hours local time. General Information Heavy torrential rain down poured Central Sulawesi areas has caused overflowing of rivers and flooding...

Mustaqim Adamrah , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta - Floods across a South Jakarta underpass occurred because automatic pumps designed to funnel floodwater to a drainage point had been blocked by water,...

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta - Some residential areas in the vicinity of the city's largest river, Ciliwung, were under two feet of water Thursday, the Jakarta administration's disaster mitigation...

Three people have been killed and hundreds others fled homes after floods hit Bojonego regency of East Java province, Indonesia, since Monday, local Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday. An...

Due to the monsoon season, the residents live in Bekasi and Karawang Indonesia have been suffering from floods since the beginning of January. Over 8000 hectares of land are still flooded in the two...

By Ahmad Husein, International Federation communications coordinator in Jakarta More than 2,500 people rush down the main street, running to save their lives as a five metre tidal wave looms large...

JAKARTA, 4 March 2008 (IRIN) - Fifty-year-old Sudarti cannot remember how many times she has had to flee her tiny, rented house as flood waters surged above the banks of the nearby Krukut river in...

Taiwan Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation has delivered aids and provides emergency assistance for the poor, and to the people who affected by calamities around the world. In 2007, many...

Note: Index to flood locations on the map 11. Argentina 13. Ecuador 14. Namibia 17. Peru 20. Australia 22. Zambia 23. Philippines 24. Madagascar 25. China 26. Indonesia 27. Kazakhstan 235. Mozambique...

On February 9th, Torrential rain in Indonesia has caused major flooding across East Java. Flood waters two or three meters high took the lives of around a dozen people. It also swept away the homes...