Jakarta Flood

This is a picture of Cikampek highway on Tuesday. The picture taken from elevated road that leads to Kalimalang road. The part flooded with water is entry point to enter the highway.

It usually never flood. This year, however, we have several flood incidents. Which is weird!

We usually have 5 years cycle of great flood. Once every 5 years there would be a big flood. What makes this year special is we got great flood more than once.

Usually, we got a big flood once and that's it. Now, however, every heavy rain guarantee flood will happen.

The biggest hit were on Bekasi, Jakarta's neighbor. My friend got his car flooded up to the roof. His neighbors also got the same.

They were unprepared.  Their area never have flood before. It seems something change.

There were constructions everywhere. This makes some water flows stopped.

The epic thing is there are cases of elite housing made their neighbors getting flooded. It seems the developer didn't build the necessary infrastructures. The neighbors and the elite complex actually have the same developer.

All of them protested. Some highschool children took further action and vandalized Aeon mall. And sadly, that's the framing that being broadcasted by the media. Not about the developer that didn't fulfill their responsibility.

And what about Kelapa Gading? Well, the State Ministry for Environment already filling case against building artificial islands in Jakarta gulf few years ago. They would ruins the ecosystems and made fishermen lost their jobs. But, hey, magically they lost.

Now the extension islands are being called reclamation islands. Lol....

Oh, well, now I just need to enjoy these misfortunes. I imagine every day as I commute I am doing rally and some light offroading.... On Jakarta streets. Lol.