THE image of a reservoir brimming with water vanished from West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi’s mind when he visited the Ciawi Dam in Bogor Regency, West Java, on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Arriving there after floods had inundated Jakarta and its neighboring regions, he saw the Ciliwung River’s waters merely passing through the reservoir, flowing downstream. Ideally, the Ciliwung’s waters should have been retained by the Ciawi