Semarang - Pray for Indonesia

Well, its kind of a coincidence or something..
but just after my last post yesterday, a friend of mine from my hometown told me that our beloved city, Semarang, just got a severe flood..
And am kind of surprised.. How come??
Are not we suppose to worry about the hot ash from the volcano coming soon instead?

First version:
Turns out one of the dam from the "Tanah Mas" area has been broken..
and the water just blowing out to the city..
causing more than 40cm height of flood..
The housing population in the surrounding areas has caused heavy traffic

Second version:
The Beringin River in Semarang has spill due to the heavy rain that afternoon (9/11/10)..
There are 3 victims caused by this flood including 2 toddler and 1 adult..
Heavy traffic has forced many busses and trucks to get stuck due to the mud coming along with the flow of the flood..

Pray for Indonesia..
Pray for Semarang..
Pray for US..
Indonesian version of the news can be read here and here

Pray for Indonesia

Am not claiming myself as a true nationalist or whatever, but i do love my home country Indonesia..
This post is about "Pray for Indonesia"..

Since nowadays most people are either with Blackberry or iPhone, sending forwarded emails is not so much in trend anymore.. People prefer to broadcast message directly from their mobile.. either with Blackberry Massenger or anykind of other social networking media..
I found this quite annoying sometimes, when people just keep on broadcasting unimportant (read: rubbish) message.. But lately, i do feel glad because those broadcasts are my way of keeping myself up to date about whats going on over there in Indonesia.. especially when my parents were in New Zealand, and practically no one's at home for quite sometime..

Lately there have been quite a lot of natural disasters going on in Indo..
First, we got this tsunami on the Mentawai Island, in West Coast of Sumatra..
Then, we got Merapi, one of the most active volcano in Java Island..
what makes it worst is Merapi keep on searing ash (we refer it as "wedhus gembel") that makes a lot of people got sick, respiration problem, cloudy air, and even the road got all white from the ash..
As soon as the news were spread, people started to use #PrayForIndonesia as their tag on Twitter and Facebook as well. I know who started this.. but there are some logo's of "Pray for Indonesia" being used. This i guess is a symbol to show their compassion and care with Indonesia..

Some news on either Tsunami in Mentawai and Merapi Volcano can be read here..
Let's together Pray for Indonesia..
let God be with those who need His help..