Floods - February 2002, Indonesia

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 13/03/2007 - 03:32. Floods – Landslide

Start date: 27/01/2002

End date:12/02/2002

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Indonesia

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Glide number: FL-2002-000054-IDN

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Floods that began in late January inundated the capital city of Jakarta displacing approximately 313,000 people. During the height of the floods, up to 35 percent of the city was underwater with more than 500,000 people affected by water depths in excess of 3 m Floods and landslides also affected another 33 regions of eastern Java.

¹ ReliefWeb. 2002. Indonesia: Floods information bulletin No. 02
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64CG63?OpenDocument

² ReliefWeb. 2002. Indonesia: Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 2
http://wwww.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/6e5a1e1c926d654849256...

Event overview table

No. Deaths	135
No. Injured
No. Affected	500,000
Houses destroyed	214
Houses damaged	40,000
Other damage	- 40,000 hectares rice fields - 6,000 hectares of cocoa plantations
Economic cost	$200,000,000

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