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        "msgid": "dry-spell-may-continue-until-october-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-08-01 00:00:00",
        "title": "Dry spell may continue until October",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Dry spell may continue until October JAKARTA (JP): Weather experts are predicting that the current dry spell will last until October in most parts of Indonesia, although some areas may begin to see rain in September. Karjoto Sontokusumo, the chairman of the Meteorological and Geophysics Agency, said on Saturday that rain might start falling in 17 percent of the country in September, but for most of the nation, rain will not come until October.",
        "content": "<p>Dry spell may continue until October<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Weather experts are predicting that the current<br>\ndry spell will last until October in most parts of Indonesia,<br>\nalthough some areas may begin to see rain in September.<\/p>\n<p>Karjoto Sontokusumo, the chairman of the Meteorological and<br>\nGeophysics Agency, said on Saturday that rain might start falling<br>\nin 17 percent of the country in September, but for most of the<br>\nnation, rain will not come until October.<\/p>\n<p>Karjoto acknowledged that the current dry season is one of the<br>\nworst to hit Indonesia in recent years. He ranked it on the same<br>\nlevel as that experienced in 1991 when many regions, including<br>\nthe nation&apos;s main rice growing areas, saw a crippling water<br>\ncrisis.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the dry season came earlier than expected in most<br>\nparts of Java and West Nusa Tenggara. The water supply in many<br>\nparts of Java is reported to be critical, causing massive rice<br>\ncrop failures and threatening more.<\/p>\n<p>Karjoto was speaking after attending the closing ceremony of<br>\nthe 17th meeting of the Sub-committee on Meteorology and<br>\nGeophysics of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN).<\/p>\n<p>Karjoto said that all delegations of member countries agreed<br>\nto forge cooperation in research on meteorology, climatology and<br>\ngeophysics.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Singapore is responsible for conducting a meteorological<br>\nproject, Thailand will coordinate a research project in the field<br>\nof meteorology and cloud-seeding, while Indonesia will be<br>\nresponsible for geophysics research,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>ASEAN groups Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the<br>\nPhilippines, Singapore and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Karjoto said the sub-committee would need to set up a fund to<br>\ncarry out the projects. Several donor countries, such as Japan,<br>\nAustralia and the United States, and financial institutions, such<br>\nas World Bank and Asian Development Bank, have agreed to finance<br>\nsome of the projects.<\/p>\n<p>Sub-committee Chairman Patipat Patvivatsiri of Thailand said<br>\nASEAN and the European Union would also conduct a joint<br>\nscientific project to assess natural hazards in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The project, whose funding will come from the European Union<br>\ncountries, is expected to be underway this year to improve our<br>\ncapability in minimizing negative impacts of natural hazards in<br>\nthis region,&quot; he said. (rms)<\/p>",
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