A lack of knowledge about eye health is the main reason behind the high blindness rate in Indonesia, a health practitioner has said. The director of the Cicendo Eye Hospital and National Eye Center, Hikmat Wangsaatmadja, said that Indonesia had the highest number of blindness cases in the world, after Ethiopia. “In fact, 80 percent of blindness can be cured,” Hikmat told the World Sight Day forum in Bandung, West Java, recently. Hikmat, an ophthalmologist, said that most cases of blindness in Indonesia were caused by cataracts.To see more details visit, www.thejakartapost.com