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Indonesia's much-loved disaster agency chief dies of cancer

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho was known throughout the disaster-prone nation for his humour and sense of duty

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Indonesia’s highly regarded disaster agency spokesperson, a man who continued to provide updates on the country’s inordinate number of natural disasters even as he suffered lung cancer, has died aged 49.

Sutopo, known affectionately across the country as Pak Topo, an amalgamation of the Indonesian word for mister and an abbreviation of his first name, had been undergoing cancer treatment in the Chinese city of Guangzhou.
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