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JAKARTA - Torrential rain triggered floods in the capital, Jakarta, on Friday, blocking roads and trapping residents in their homes as torrents of muddy water reached a depth of 2m, police and witnesses said. Floods during the rainy season in Indonesia are common, but the heavy rains this week have caused chaos on roads and shut some train lines around Jakarta, police said.
"There is waist-deep water outside my building," said Rhea Chand, who works in the development sector and lives in South Jakarta. There had been no reports of deaths so far, but a string of major roads and flyovers in the city were closed, police said. A major toll road leading to the airport was closed briefly and telephone lines were also down in some parts of the city of nine million as flooding affected underground cables, officials said.
In some parts of Jakarta, people helped stranded motorcyclists load their vehicles on wooden carts and dragged them through knee-deep flood waters. In other areas, soldiers evacuated residents in rubber boats in flooded slum areas. Some had to take refuge in buildings with higher floors to escape the waters. Some residents in southern Jakarta had moved to higher ground, Krisna, a police official at the city's traffic information desk, said.
The official said local authorities had been warned beforehand to prepare for the deluge. "Usually local authorities have already prepared shelter, food, medical teams and clothing," he said. More than 80 city buses were stranded in traffic jams or due to lack of fuel, Antara news agency reported. But in parts of downtown Jakarta traffic ran unusually smoothly for a city known for jams with many people choosing to stay home or unable to get into the city.
Many office workers could not make it into work, while children in parts of the city took advantage of the extreme wet weather to play and swim in the flooded streets. Outside the capital, train and road lines were cut in the Tangerang district west of Jakarta, Antara said. The rain was affecting a large swath of West Java including the capital, Tangerang and the city of Bogor, home to famed botanical gardens, said Kukuh Ribudianto of the Meteorology agency.
He said the intensity of rain had weakened slightly from overnight, but was likely to continue until the evening.
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