Killing floods hit Jakarta
Tens of thousands of Indonesians had not returned to their homes on Saturday, January 4, following the floods that hit the Jakarta region, causing 60 deaths, according to the authorities. The worst monsoon rains in more than a decade deluged Jakarta this week and rising rivers submerged at least 182 neighbourhoods while landslides on the city’s outskirts buried at least a dozen people. More than 170,000 people have been displaced by floods, the largest in several years, which have caused chaos and power outages in parts of the largest city in Southeast Asia. Most of the people who died in these floods drowned, were buried in landslides or suffered from hypothermia. The torrential rains caused sudden floods and landslides in the regions of Jakarta and Lebak, located southwest of the island of Java, about 100 kilometres from the capital. The conditions of the refugees have become very difficult especially due to the lack of water and food. Eleven thousand soldiers a...