Where to go when nature calls
Where to go when nature calls
SEMARANG: Health Minister Sujudi says only 53.4 percent of
Indonesian families have toilets and the remaining 46.6 percent
use ditches or rivers to dump human waste.
The statistical data, Sujudi said Wednesday, shows that lack
of cleanliness remains a major problem in Indonesia.
Only 65.4 percent of Indonesia's 200 about million people have
access to clean water.
The sanitary problem explains the high prevalence of certain
diseases like diarrhea and dengue fever.
But even more worrying is widespread promiscuity, which
aggravates the worsening problem of AIDS in Indonesia, according
to the minister. (har)