DISASTER AND ECONOMY

JAKARTA, 24/3 - BENCANA AND ECONOMIC. Minister of Finance Agus Martowardojo (two left) combined with the Vice President of the World Bank for East Asia and Pacific James (two right) accompanied by the Director of the World Bank for Indonesia Stefan Koeberle (right) and the Author of the Books NHUD Apurva Sanghi (left) in the launch of the World Bank’s report book and the UN titled the Natural Hazards Unnatural Disaster (NHUD) in Jakarta, Thursday (24/3). In the book it is estimated that in 2010 the damage value of weather-based disasters although without climate change reaches 185 billion US dollars per year. ANTARA/Rosa Panggabean/Koz/nz/11.