Indonesian Outage Leaves 100 Million Without Electricity

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Indonesian outage leaves 100m without electricity
By Shawn Donnan in Jakarta
Published: August 19 2005 01:56 | Last updated: August 19 2005 01:56

Some 100m Indonesians were without electricity on Thursday as power outages hit the country's main grid, leaving office workers in Jakarta trapped in elevators and the state-owned power monopoly struggling for an explanation.

Perusahaan Listrik Negara said power was last night being restored across most affected areas after a failure hit the Java-Madura-Bali inter-connection system at 10.23am, causing outages across the main island of Java and nearby Bali.

But Eddie Widiono, PLN's president, warned that yesterday's problems highlighted the fragile state of an electricity grid that almost half of Indonesia's 220m population relies on.

In parts, the main transmission lines were more than 20 years old, Mr Widiono told reporters. The outages also highlighted what is rapidly becoming an energy crisis for Indonesia, one of the world's most resource- and energy-rich countries.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/bffd3f32-1044-11da-bd5c-00000e2511c8.html

[sushi]

1. Awful

No A/C and high humidity!:-(

[NYC]

3. And stuck in an elevator.

If 1 million are without electricity, there must be a lot of people stuck in elevators. That means it will take a long time to get to them.

[Peggy Day]

4. 100 million!!!

[oscar111]

5. AUG '03 NE and NYC blackout

energy bill just passed a week or 2 ago, will do what for transmission wires?

have heard differing opinions.

will it bring more or fewer blkouts?

TWO TYPES OF CAUSES TO CONSIDER:
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-enron ... CA.. was a case of turning off the plant on purpose.

-NE blackout was not trimming a tree near heat-sagging wires.
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Energy bill will allow foreign banks to buy up our power companies. Favoring more of the CA type outages.

supposedly the bill will make for more tree trimming -- but is this claim true? OR just more GOP lies?

[NYC]

7. Thanks.

I thought 1 million was bad.

[Lexingtonian]

2. uh, oops....

Now that's pretty embarrassing.

[Roland99]

8. Why am I reminded of that one scene in Airplane?

Where "Johnny" unplugs the power cord.

[sintax]

6. kick n/t

[oscar111]

9. kck