WRAP Massive floods hit capital, tens of thousands homeless

(5 Feb 2007) 1. Wide of flooded neighbourhood 2. Mid of house surrounded by flood water 3. People walking through flooding street 4. Various of child lying in small rubber boat 5. Pan of refugees inside mosque 6. Close up of children sleeping 7. Mid of mother sitting on floor breast feeding baby 8. Mid of woman sitting on floor with two children 9. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Voxpop, Refugee, no name given: "I have been in this kind of situation many times before. I feel very sad because the floods are bigger than usual this time." 10. Mid of army personnel with pots of food in public kitchen 11. Various of woman wrapping food 12. Close up of food 13. Mid of people sitting on table, surrounded by flood water, eating food 14. Various of flooded street and sandbags surrounding entrance to Jakarta office building 15. Various of flooded streets 16. People walking on flooded street 17. Flooded street 18. Various of people paddling a raft down flooded street 19. Wide shot of people queued up outside emergency health centre 20. Doctor handling medicine, official and woman sitting by medicine table 21. Close-up of doctor stapling bag of medicine 22. Woman and child inside health centre 23. Man getting seen to by doctor 24. Close-up of man's foot being checked by doctor 25. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Dr Sulis, Government doctor: "Mostly the people here have problems with diarrhea, infection of respiration, flu, coughing and fungus because they are now living surrounded by dirty water". 26. Wide shot of people and children standing in flood water 27. Woman washing clothes, sitting by flood water 28. Wide shot of woman holding child standing in flood water STORYLINE: Pounding rain caused rivers in the Indonesian capital to burst their banks on Monday and killed at least 25 people, forcing some 340-thousand to flee from their homes in recent days. Large areas of the city remained submerged under waist-high waters and officials warned that rain to the south, responsible for Jakarta's swollen rivers, might result in more flooding later in the day. ''I feel very sad because the floods are bigger than usual this time,'' said one woman forced to leave her home because of the flooding. The government dispatched medical teams on rubber rafts into the worst-hit districts amid fears that disease may spread among residents living in squalid conditions with limited access to clean drinking water. "Mostly the people here have problems with diarrhea, infection of respiration, flu, coughing and fungus because they are now living surrounded by dirty water," said Dr Sulis, a government doctor working in a local emergency health centre. Incessant rain that starting falling on Thursday on Jakarta and the hills south of the city triggered the floods. Tens of thousands of homes, school and hospitals, in poor and wealthy districts alike, were swamped. Authorities estimated that between 40 percent and 70 percent of the city, which spans an area of 660 square-kilometers (412 square miles), had been inundated. Indonesia's meteorological agency has forecast rain for the next two weeks. Jakarta regularly floods, though not on this scale. Seasonal downpours cause dozens of landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago of 17,000 islands, where millions live in mountainous areas or near fertile plains. Keyword-severe weather -floods Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...