Extreme weather has exacerbated flooding in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and its surrounding cities, adding to the metropolis’ chronic problems of poor urban planning and land subsidence ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Environmental Office recorded 1,500 tons of waste piling up after the floods that inundated parts of the city. Jakarta was flooded after downpours on Sunday night, ...

Torrential rain since Monday has triggered floods of up to 3-metres in and around Jakarta, blocking some roads and submerging over 1,000 houses and many cars. Thousands of people were evacuated in ...