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Topic started on 25-8-2005 @ 01:02 AM by Muaddib
A power outage left 120 million people without electricity for more than 5 hours in Indonesia. The president of the country, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, ordered the secret service and the police to find the cause of the outage. The state run power company declared that they did not find the cause of the blackout which led to a loss of 20,000 megawatts.



www.asianews.it
Jakarta (AsiaNews/SCMP) – In Indonesia 120 million people were left without electricity yesterday because of suspected technical problems at power stations. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered police and secret services to investigate the energy outage which left nearly half the population in the dark and created serious inconveniences, especially for transport and hospital services.

The state-run company which supplies electric power declared itself ignorant of the cause of the blackout which cut off electricity in homes, business enterprises and trains for more than five hours, leading to serious road accidents in the capital.



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I would really like to know what exactly caused this outage. We know that the sun has been acting crazy lately but I am not certain if there were any large CMEs latelly that could have been the cause of this large outage.

Any information from anyone in the area would be appreciated.
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