Indonesia tries to control rainfall

Indonesian authorities will try to control rainfall over Jakarta to avoid further flooding.

Authorities in Indonesia will use generators and cloud-seeding measures to defuse and push away rain-laden clouds to avoid more flooding that has paralysed Jakarta.

Last week, heavy rain over the city caused 32 deaths and at its peak forced nearly 46,000 people to flee their inundated homes, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, told AFP.

The weather agency has forecast heavy rain for this weekend, raising concerns that Jakarta - which combined with...

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A new plan in Indonesia will attempt to decrease the amount of rainfall the city of Jakarta receives.  Do you think humans should try to control the weather?

Human rights watch urges Indonesian govt to say sorry

Efforts at national reconciliation are underway in Indonesia after a state-sponsored inquiry indicated gross human rights abuse and crimes against humanity during the 1965-66 government-led anti-communist purge.

An estimated half a million Indonesians were killed and a million others were said to have been jailed and tortured in the aftermath of an attempt to overthrow President Sukarno in September 1965.

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights which carried out the inquiry has urged the government to offer a formal apology and compensation to the victims.

An eight-year state-sponsored inquiry by Indonesia's National Human Right Commission recently concluded that...

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