WHOEVER will be elected as Jakarta’s new governor in August will find a colossal task awaiting him: preventing floods.

This will be complicated, particularly since one of the causes of the flooding is not in the capital, but in Puncak, which is administered by the Bogor regency and West Java provincial governments.

The three major floods to hit Jakarta in the last 11 years have clearly shown that Puncak is the source of the problem. Land mana