Jakarta: Severe flooding across several areas in the Indonesian capital more than a thousand people to evacuate their homes on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the country’s meteorology agency warned that the conditions will continue for the next week.
Atleast 1,380 Jakarta residents were evacuated from southern and eastern areas of the city, home to 10 million people, after floodwaters reached up to 1.8 meters high in some areas, said Sabdo Kurnianto, the acting head of Jakarta’s disaster mitigation agency in a statement.
However, no casualties had been reported, he said.
According to the latest data, two hundred neighbourhoods have been affected while more than two dozen evacuation centres have been prepared across the city.
The floods come at a time when Indonesia is already grappling with the highest caseload and death tally from COVID-19 in Southeast Asia and an economic recession.
Indonesia’s meteorology agency (BMKG) has warned the heaviest rain of the season may fall in and around the densely populated capital in the coming days, with extreme weather, including heavy rain, thunder and strong winds, expected throughout next week.
The BMKG said Jakarta would be on alert for the next four days with data from the meteorology agency showing intense rainfall in the past 24 hours with the area of Pasar Minggu, in Jakarta’s south, recording 226 millimeters of rain since Friday.
