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View all search resultsAs the severe flooding that hit the Greater Jakarta area slowly receded, local authorities rushed to start the recovery process by cleaning up key infrastructure and residents’ houses, but the public demanded more tangible and long-term solutions to address the region’s perennial problem.
Recent large-scale flooding in Greater Jakarta, which has had a particularly dire effect in Bekasi, West Java, has drawn attention to the area’s poor urban planning and insufficient disaster mitigation.
The Jakarta Police have questioned at least 17 officers in connection with the seven teen boys whose bodies were found in the Bekasi River, as calls grow for transparency amid increasing reports of police brutality in handling juvenile cases.
A number of police watchdogs have urged the law enforcement authorities to be transparent in probing the discovery of the bodies of seven male teenagers in the Bekasi River, West Java, who are thought to have been chased by the police for initiating a brawl via social media.
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