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Flood reckoning for Bali on overdevelopment, waste
Bali's floods, worsened by daily waste exceeding 4,200 tons and unchecked land development, expose vulnerabilities in infrastructure and environmental planning, officials say.
- On September 9 government data showed record rainfall before floods killed at least 18 and left four missing, the island's worst in a decade, BMKG reported.
- Research from 2019 found Bali produces 4,200 tons of waste daily with less than half going to landfill, and improperly disposed waste clogs waterways, said I Gede Hendrawan.
- More than 4.6 million foreign tourists visited Bali from January to August this year, outstripping the 4.4 million native population, while in recent months local authorities demolished illegal structures and cracked down on risky construction.
- A review of building along four major rivers will be launched and rules-violators face enforcement, while Bali's local government will close a major landfill this year and households are urged to manage organic waste.
- The government says the facility will spread development to the island's north, but critics including Made Krisna Dinata worry it will replicate the south's problems while climate change raises flood risks this year.
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Denpasar - Standing where her family home was still recently standing, Ruth Deidree Boelan closes her eyes and prays for her loved ones who disappeared during the deadly floods that swept the tourist island of Bali in early September. "I am still in shock. My brother, my father and my mother were taken away by the waters and the entire house", located on the river bank, "disappeared", entrusts to AFP the 28-year-old woman, sobbing in her voice. …
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