Flooding hits three-quarters of Jakarta

Flooding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, has affected around three quarters of the city, an official said today as the death toll from the disaster hit 25.

Some 340,000 others have been forced from their homes.

Storm waters that inundated scores of residential areas and shopping districts late last week were still three feet deep in places, witnesses and Anwar Arifin, from Jakarta’s flood information centre, said.

“As of today, 75 percent of Jakarta remains flooded,” Arifin said.