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About weeks ago, Jakarta was like a drowning pool (well, not quite like that). Coffee-with-cream-like water was all over the megapolitan city. Even in Kelapa Gading, a well known area of expensive houses. Trash, of course, was included in the flood package. More to come: the recovery processes, diseases, etc.

Administrators said, there's this five years cycle of flood. Two rainy season, each 1996 and 2002, had shown the proofs of the cycle. Water was all over the city. In 2002, our First Lady whom also sat on the president's chair, Megawati Soekarnoputri, was forced to see almost knee-high water in Istana Merdeka's yard. I think his husband (The First Gentleman? errr...), Taufik Kiemas, was with her, too.

And last night, on RCTI, Sutiyoso blamed the deforestration on the hills at south of Jakarta. He, the city's governor, said that there are not enough trees and soil to keep water from flooding to the lower land.

He acted like he had no role in the exhausting situation his citizens had to live in. But sir, YOU are the governor! All these malls, plazas, squares, trade centers, apartments, housing complexes, or whatever more, had been there because of your heart's kindness! You permit the developers, and then.. voila. Swamp turned to nice houses.

Well, not just your fault of course. Let's not forget the governors before you, Sir. You have just been the governor for nearly ten years. Let's not forget what development Sutiyoso had brought here in ten years. Transjakarta, maybe? And traffic jams everywhere?

But one BIG question remain. Why does the five years cycle of flood have to happen NEAR the end of the governor's period of administration? Well I don't have the answer. But what we have in store is, after the flood, more packages of budget are coming. With the amount of trillions of Rupiah.