PRESS DIGEST-Indonesian General News - Feb 7
Source: Reuters
Following are the leading stories in the main Indonesian newspapers on Feb 7. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Telephone: Editorial: +62-21-384-6364. Fax: +62-21-344-8404 or Help Desk: +803-061-2124 (toll free). - - - - THE JAKARTA POST - JAKARTA ADMINISTRATION FORGOT PROPER DRAINAGE The Jakarta administration has acknowledged being late to adopt a drainage system to manage flooding caused by excessive development in the city's catchment areas. A Jakarta waterworks official said only 2.9 percent of the city's total area is utilised for the drainage system when the minimum should be eight percent. - ADAM AIR FAMILIES TO SUE BOEING The families of 30 passengers from the Adam Air jetliner that went missing off Sulawesi on Jan. 1 plan to sue U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing over the accident, a U.S.-based Indonesian lawyer said on Tuesday. - - - - KOMPAS - FLOOD STILL A THREAT, RAIN TO POUR IN COMING DAYS Jakarta as well as its satellite cities of Tangerang and Bekasi still face the threat of flooding as water in some inundated residential areas has not yet receded while rain may pour hard in two or three days, meteorologists say. - FLOOD DEATH TOLL AT 48 Floods in Jakarta and its surrounding cities this month have killed 48 people, more than half of them living inside the capital, the Jakarta metropolitan police said on Tuesday. - - - - MEDIA INDONESIA - SIX KILLED IN BANTEN LANDSLIDE Six villagers died under collapsing land on Tuesday after torrential rain poured for hours on a hamlet in Banten province, an area near Jakarta. - - - -
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