FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTREADER MODE JAKARTA, 24 January 2013 (IRIN) - Recent widespread flooding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, highlights the need for more effective flood management. The government’s efforts to reduce perennial flooding in Jakarta have been focused on building more floodways, but this does not address fundamental problems like environmental degradation, says Marco Kusumawijaya, an urban planning expert at the Jakarta-based Rujak Centre for Urban Studies. “Infrastructure drains, but if you don’t reduce the amount of water [in] surface run-off, the capacity of the drains will always be overwhelmed,” he told IRIN. “Because when you build drains...
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