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)