Fatal Flood
Jakarta’s flood problem is growing. Areas that were never flooded in the past are now deluged, including the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital.
Hussein Abri Dongoran
March 3, 2020
AGUS Wijayanto disappeared in the flood on Tuesday morning, February 25. The 15-year-old student of the Daarul Ishlah Assalfy Islamic Boarding School (pesantren) in Kalibata, was playing with his friends at the Mampang Canal near Pancoran, South Jakarta.
The Mampang Canal flows by the school area. When Agus and other students of the pesantren grew bored of playing in the school’s backyard, which was submerged in water to the knee of an adu
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