REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The Indonesian Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) receives increasing demand of artificial rain to increase the water level in a number of dams to anticipate an imminent dry season.

"I have just signed a contract with Medan branch of state electricity company PT PLN general manager to fill up the Kota dan and lake Singkarak," BPPT artificial rain task force unit spokesman Heru F Widodo said on Wednesday.

Widodo said other artificial rain demands also came from Perum Jasa Tirta in East Java to fill up Sutami dam, PLN South Kalimantan branch to fill Riam Kanan dam. Private mining company PT. Vale Indonesia also have called the agency for artificial rain to water Matano, Mahalona, and Towuti lakes in South Sulawesi.

"We have no budget, we only have the technology. So we do the activities according to demand," said Widodo.