Thursday, February 7, 2008

Flood in Jakarta

The flood caused many problems for the people in Jakarta, especially people who live alongside the river which have to surrender their houses to the massive flood. It caused an electricity failure all over Jakarta, roads are cracked everywhere, vehicles are broken and it also caused me several problems. At those times when the water level is still high, I cannot go back from campus as all the road to my campus is block by the flood. I have been jailed inside the campus for several hours before my parents can pick me up. It were boring hours during the flood. That is not enough, my house even being flooded for 2 days. All of my things are broken because of the flood. After the flood has ended, there was rubbish and trash everywhere in huge amount. There are uncountable financial losses from both the government and private companies. Car Insurances Company was the greatest victim of this flood because they have to pay the repairing cost of many cars which have been destroyed by the flood. One company I know has to pay 2 trillion rupiahs to the workshop in which the cars are being repaired. Although there are lots of victims in this catastrophe, there are still people that are getting profit from this flood thing. Trash collector and workshop owner’s are few of many examples.

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