Usman Firdaus hopes that the activities he has been running for the last 17 years at the Ciliwung River can serve as a model of how to care for the environment in other regions.

A number of residents are tirelessly taking care of the Ciliwung River in Jakarta. They steadfastly make the Ciliwung part of the terraces of their homes or their ever growing kampung (settlement).

The President stressed that the mitigation of floods in Jakarta must be comprehensive from the upstream to the downstream.

People are waiting for the Ciawi and Sukamahi dry dams in Bogor, West Java to begin operating. The completion of the dam project will also end the impact that the dam construction project is currently having on local res