Diversionary Tactics
The Ciliwung River will be merged with the East Flood Canal through a connecting tunnel. Housing will be built on the site where the river once ran.
February 12, 2008
PITOYO Subandrio’s cellphone had been ringing continuously since morning. From the TNI (Indonesian Military) commander and cabinet ministers down to dozens of residents living along the Ciliwung River, they all asked him the same questions about floods which had inundated parts of Jakarta on Friday a fortnight ago. Pitoyo, head of the Public Works Department’s Ciliwung-Cisadane Rivers Affairs, is the person on whom people rely for information
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