It takes almost one hour to travel on the Cikeas River from Bekasi, West Java, to the Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakarta. Ropes installed by residents to cross the narrow and shallow river caused by sedimentation, slows down the journey considerably. "If the river wasn't so shallow, it would have only taken half an hour at the most. The speedboat had to stop whenever it hit some trash," said transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi, recounting his expe