30,000 displaced by deadly floods in Indonesian capital

JAKARTA, Jan 19 (AFP): More than 30,000 Indonesians have fled their homes in the capital due to flooding that has left five dead, officials said Sunday, with people using rubber dinghies and wading through waist-deep water to reach safer ground.
Many parts of Jakarta were under murky, brown water after days of torrential rain produced the city's first significant floods of the months-long rainy season.
Buildings in some parts of the sprawling capital, which has a population of more than 10 million and is regularly afflicted by floods, were half submerged, with roads unpassable in many areas.
"Yesterday the water was knee deep in my house," Yulian Candra, who lives in west Jakarta, told news website Detik. "There has also been a power cut for the past two days."