Indonesia: In flood-prone Flores, villagers fight to keep their heads above water
![by Flickr user aaqq / Rizki Permana, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic, http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpermana/3113054534/](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_16_9/public/17269_indonesiafloods.jpg?itok=tHpygFo6)
Although traditional wisdom and hard-earned lessons enabled villagers of Tanali and West Mautenda to diminish the potentially disastrous consequences of flooding and landslides during the rainy season, residents are also getting a helping hand from Oxfam, the Australia Indonesia Partnership, the Flores Institute for Resource Development and the Tanali Development Foundation, who look forward to implement a community-based disaster risk reduction program throughout the district.