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The Siak (Sungai Siak) is a river of Riau province, in the east of Sumatra, Indonesia, about 1000 km northwest of the capital Jakarta. [2] Approximately 370 kilometres in length, the Siak is a blackwater river which owes its brown color to dissolved organic matter (DOM) leached from surrounding, heavily disturbed peat soils; it is heavily polluted, notably by the petroleum industry.
On 20 June, about 3 months since the pollution first discovered, a number of students from schools in the Pasir Gudang area began complaining of nausea, dizziness and experienced vomiting which eventually led to the temporary closure of the schools in the area. The authorities later confirmed it as the third wave of air poisoning resulted from ...
The Mahakam River (Indonesian: Sungai Mahakam) is third longest and volume discharge river in Borneo after Kapuas River and Barito River, it is located in Kalimantan, Indonesia. It flows 980 kilometers (610 miles) from the district of Long Apari in the highlands of Borneo, to its mouth at the Makassar Strait .
The average runoff is around 2,339 mm. [16] The discharge rate varies through the year, averaging around 5,600–7,800 m 3 /s (200,000–280,000 cu ft/s) [17] [18] at the delta and 2,000 m 3 /s (71,000 cu ft/s) upstream, at the confluence of the Tawang. The discharge peaks during the rainy seasons in April and November, during which the water ...
Sungai Buloh Prison (Malay: Penjara Sungai Buloh; Chinese: 双溪毛糯监狱) is a prison complex in Selayang, Selangor, Malaysia and the largest prison complex in Malaysia. Its construction started in 1992 and ended in October 1996, and it was formally opened in November 1996 to replace Pudu Prison in Kuala Lumpur .