Indonesia tries to control flooding in capital Jakarta [1]

Herald Sun - 1/26/13, AAP

Local residents ride on a bamboo raft in a flooded street in northern Jakarta, Indonesia. Source: AP

INDONESIAN authorities will use generators and cloud-seeding measures to defuse and push away rain-laden clouds to avoid more flooding that has paralysed Jakarta, an official says.

Heavy rain over the mega-city last week caused 32 deaths and at its peak forced nearly 46,000 people to flee their inundated homes, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Mitigation Agency, told AFP.

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