Floods
Waterworld, Petamburan-Style
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
The floods that have recently hit Jakarta have changed social behavior, triggering stress, but at the same time have also strengthened neighborliness.
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In all his life Kamaluddin had never dreamed he would ever see a boat gliding along the lane outside his house in Petamburan, Central Jakarta. But for almost the last month this father of eight has really lived above the water—just as in the film Waterworld starring Kevin Costner. Just to get into and out of his house he has been forced to climb onto the rubber raft that several times a day edges its way through the narrow lanes in the
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