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The blogger at Indonesia's Economy Blog does not agree with the Science and Technology minister . The minister claims that giving warning tsunami warnings on radio is a bad idea.
UPDATE: Apparantly, the minister was misquoted. Pls check the comments on this post.
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Today, on several lists, the minister in question Kusmayanto Kadiman, responsed to the statement on AP and said he was misquoted.
Hi Preetam & Enda,
It turns out that, as Kusmayanto Kadiman also acknowledged, the tsunami bulletin is publicly available http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/ptwc/bulletins/indian/indian.2006.07.17.083612
Now I am even more convinced that the government could have done a lot better http://sarapanekonomi.blogspot.com/2006/07/government-fails-explaining-its.html