Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Transportation Ministry distributed some essential aid to the victims of drought and extreme weather in Puncak Regency, Central Papua, according to the Ministry’s Air Transportation Director General Kristi Endah Murni.”We have distributed humanitarian aid in the forms of rice, instant noodle, mineral water, cooking oil, and eggs. Hopefully, this assistance will help our brothers who are suffering from the disasters,” Murni noted in a statement received in Jakarta on Saturday (August 5). She informed that the Ministry was collaborating with the Mozes Kilangin Airport Operator Unit (UPBU) in the process of aid distribution, adding that the aid, totaling 500 kilograms in weight, was transported using a plane to Agandugume District via Sinak Airport on Saturday. “The affected district could only be accessed by a plane, so we, along with Mozes Kilangin UPBU, were coordinating with other ministriesagencies to hand in hand deliver the aid to the location with the available plane,” she pointed out. The drought occurs on account of frost, which led local residents’ crops, such as taro and sweet potato, to dry out, fail to grow, and eventually rot.

Source: Antara News Agency