Indonesia S Capital Hit By Serious Flooding For Second Time This Year

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Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia’s capital Jakarta today, paralysing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety
Indonesia’s weather agency linked the rains to tropical cyclones that brought bad weather to southern parts of the archipelago. It also warned of high waves in the seas south of Java island
Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan said more than 200 neighbourhoods were affected by the floods
“We are concentrating on mitigation. We have prepared all resources to be deployed,” he told reporters, adding that evacuation posts had been set up with health facilities

Low-lying Jakarta and surrounding areas are home to more than 30 million people and extremely vulnerable to flooding
At the beginning of the year, the city was hit by some of the heaviest rain since records began, causing floods that killed more than 60 people and displaced about 175,000
A spokesperson for the Disaster Mitigation Agency said it was too early to assess the number of displaced or the scale of the damage in today’s floods. The army and police would help to rescue people, said the spokesperson, Agus Wibowo
Jakarta’s Search and Rescue Agency said on Twitter its teams were helping people in the west and east of the city
It posted videos showing women and children being ferried on a rubber boat and rescuers steering a past a half-submerged minivan
Police warned of road closures and disruption to trains
State electricity utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) said power was shut off to more than 1,600 substations to ensure safety
- Reuters

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