Flooding hits Konawe regency

Flooding hits Konawe regency

KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi: Flooding has hit Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi over the past week, affecting some 700 families in the regency.

The families, some of whom have taken refuge in safer places, have been in disarray for the past week, with their houses being damaged, their cattle swept away, and their paddy fields inundated by water that could lead to harvest failure.

Arief Rahman, an executive with the Indonesian Forum for the Environment's (Walhi) Southeast Sulawesi chapter, called on the public to give aid to the victims of the flooding. The aid could be in the form of medicine and food, said Arief. -- JP