spruiked: jakarta style

Landslide-prone areas in Central Java have risen from 97 to 135 districts due to uncontrolled land conversion and forest encroachment

501 villages in Central Java are "land-slide prone". What that means is that there is a danger of people being killed or injured if there is an earthquake or heavy rain. Landslides were the biggest single killer in the Padang earthquake last month.

Landslides are caused by over-developing unstable land, or clearing trees from slopes. As Indonesia's population grows, its towns expand into areas which, quite frankly, shouldn't be developed.

Remember, earthquakes don't kill people. People kill people by building shoddy structures and by building on unstable land.