Flood victims trash office

Flood victims trash office

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara (JP): Townspeople here have a
unique way of expressing how they feel. They say it with trash.

After floods hit their homes over the weekend, residents of
the Pagutan neighborhood filled up five trucks with smelly trash
that surfaced during the flooding.

They then dumped the garbage in front of the public housing
office to protest the office's failure to do anything about the
neighborhood's drainage system.

A day after the dumping, Antara reported, an executive from
the public housing said only: "I have no comment. I'm busy
entertaining guests."

Two days of rains triggered widespread flooding and panic in
the provincial capital. In Pagutan water was knee-deep, forcing
people to save whatever belongings they could. (pan)