Dreading the Rain

A TWITTER user in Jakarta screamed: “Jakarta’s motto should no longer be Teguh Beriman (Solid and Steadfast) because Jakarta can now be paralyzed by the rain. Just look at what happened last week. Hours-long rainfall caused flooding everywhere. Traffic was brought to a standstill. A trip from downtown to the suburbs took up to six hours.

This was not only due to the rain or the anomalous weather. The solution, therefore, should not merely be

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