🇮🇩 Stemming the tide: Flooding in Indonesia | 101 East

Jakarta, Indonesia, is one of Asia's most flood-prone cities. Every year hundreds of thousands of citizens living in the capital of Southeast Asia's largest economy brace for the loss of business, shelter and livelihoods.
Each year, as the rainy season approaches, the authorities insist they are ready to counter the tides of brown murky water, trash, and even animals, surging downstream. But the annual city-wide submergence continues.
This year's sustained downpour threatens to prompt the kind of flooding not seen since 2007 when 350,000 people were evacuated from water-logged areas and dozens were killed. Already, at least 100,000 people have been affected. Army personnel have been deployed to some of the city's poorest parts to clean up - a process likely to take weeks, if not months.
Asia's monsoon season prompts annual debate about the state of infrastructure and the fundamental mismanagement of vital systems meant to keep some of the world's biggest cities moving. With a population of 10 million, Jakarta's latest battle to stem the tide highlights a deeper political and social problem: The government's inability to remove and rehabilitate low-lying slum areas; an unwillingness on part of thousands of poor people to leave dangerous areas despite the risk to themselves and their families; and the overwhelming problem of waste and dumping, often cited as the biggest hindrance to keeping Indonesia "flood-free".
Indonesia faces a formidable challenge: The country's economy is growing at breakneck speed, its population is rising and the pressures on its decaying systems are mounting. The World Bank has stepped in to help save what it describes as a "sinking city", due to rising sea levels, trash and annual rain. To dig the city out of its mess, the World Bank has invested $200 million to dredge parts of Jakarta.
But is one programme at a time, one initiative every season, enough to solve the deluge of problems?
101 East explores why the authorities find it so difficult to keep the surging waters at bay. We follow the stories of Indonesians who lose their homes and their livelihoods year after year, the businesses that damage control annually in vain, and the agencies and people who say they work tirelessly year round only to see one of the world's most densely populated cities "go under" without a fight.
We investigate what makes the rainy season so dangerous in the capital of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economy, and if it can ever stem the tide of destruction.
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[@zambimaru]

When your city gets flooded every year, you know they really screwed up the construction.

[@MsColdCanada]

Sedimentation builds up. Dredge it?

[@virtuvianTrace]

May the west Papuans feel the flood of freedom throughout their nation.

[@gondring2002]

no way...i don't think so we not allow that..who are you anyway? this is flood related film not separatist video so comment in related issue.

[@scadatan7574]

move over to Singapore.

[@gondring2002]

to expensive for such as small country