Deep trouble: A woman wading through water of a street flooded due to heavy rain at a residential area in Jakarta. — AFP
Greater Jakarta braces for more flooding after heavy downpours swept through many neighbourhoods, causing massive floods and severing major thoroughfares in the past few days.
Heavy rains and flooding also hit other parts of the country, with more rain forecast across the archipelago this week.
In an online statement on Wednesday, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency raised the alert status of five provinces from level 1 to level 2, in anticipation of more hydrometeorological disasters, including floods and flash floods.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency has issued warnings for public caution and alertness.
It also urged those who lived on floodplains or close to rivers, as well as those living on cliffsides, to take precautionary measures and take shelter in safer places in the event of heavy downpours that last for more than one hour. — The Jakarta Post/ANN
