Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso: “I wasn’t responsive? That’s a matter of opinion”
February 12, 2002
Jakarta has been inundated with water and city governor Sutiyoso inundated with complaints. As the governor of the Jakarta Special Region since 1997, he is deemed by many to have been less than efficient in anticipating the floods that inundated the city, and to have failed to immediately carry out coordination with his officials. As a result, a quarter of the area under his control was flooded and thousands of people were forced to flee their h
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