Extreme Weather
In Indonesia climate change has enhanced extreme weather disasters and increased risk. Indonesia's global placement plays into it's weather issues, wind from different hemispheres meet in a Intertropical Convergence Zone prompting the gathering of moist air masses and frequent convective rainfall. With the rising temperatures, projected precipitation trends have changed across the country and extreme rainfall intensity increases in some areas. The amount of hydro-meteorological disasters have swelled, in 2016 alone 92% of the 2,342 disasters fell under that category. Between 1998 and 2018 80% of extreme weather and disasters derived from climate change including flooding, heavy wind and storms, landslides, and drought. In January of 2013 a multitude of floods affected the Indonesian capital and its surrounding regions, over 250,000 were affected, 47 people lost their lives, 100,000 residences and structures were destroyed, and loses reached over $1,000,000. In 2015 an extreme ...