Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged at least 182 neighborhoods in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta, killing 43 and displacing about 397,000 people.
Residents move the wreckage of cars that were swept away by flood in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020.Severe flooding in greater Jakarta has killed scores of people and displaced tens of thousands others, the country's disaster management agency said.
Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged at least 182 neighborhoods in greater Jakarta and caused landslides in the Bogor and Depok districts on the city’s outskirts, which buried a dozen people. It was the worst flooding since 2013, when 57 people were killed after Jakarta was inundated by monsoon rains.
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