The violent floods which hit entire districts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta left five dead including four children, announced this Sunday the authorities of the country.
Torrential rains hit the city over the weekend, inundating dozens of main arteries and forcing hundreds of people to seek refuge in emergency shelters.
The streets of the Indonesian capital are covered in mud and residents are now working to restore their homes.
“The river overflowed and it created a lot of mud ... it causes a huge financial loss for me,” lamented Ali Fatullah, a fruit seller in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta.
The floods affected 200 districts of the megalopolis and 40 of them were still under at least 30 cm of water on Sunday
Last year, the city experienced one of the deadliest floods in years, with downpours also leading to landslides.
At least 67 people in the capital and its outskirts died in the disaster.
