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)