Indonesia's capital faced more misery today from floods of up to four metres that hit the city and killed at least 20 people and displaced 340,000.
Swollen rivers and canals spilled muddy water onto the city streets of the tropical city of nine million people causing blackouts, cutting telephone lines and blocking key roads.
Floods are common in Indonesia during the rainy season, but the devastation of recent days has been the worst in five years, and meteorology officials have warned the city could suffer heavy rains until the end of the month.
Officials are also concerned that water contamination and the displacement of so many people could bring disease in a city already struggling with a surge in cases of dengue fever.
An official at the country's Meteorology and Geophysics agency said downpours were continuing with fluctuating intensity in and around Jakarta today.
Floods in the city can often spring up in one area and recede in another as water from rain in upstream areas such as Bogor feeds into rivers criss-crossing the city.
Yesterday, a key sluice gate on a canal that runs through central Jakarta was opened because of heavy run-off from upstream, increasing flooding in the city.
Newspapers today questioned why more has not be done to prevent flooding in the low-lying city - which was originally built on swampland - after severe flooding five years ago.