Jakarta Emergency Declared as Floods Swamp President’s Office
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Indonesia declared a state of emergency in Jakarta as flooding brought traffic to a standstill in the city of 9.6 million people and swamped the offices of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
The floods killed at least five people, including a two-year-old who drowned after falling off his bed, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for the National Agency for Disaster Management. Yudhoyono still met yesterday with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and is scheduled to host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today.