The waters to blame

Kid: Every dry season the floods get forgotten, before there was talk about overcoming the floods, but it was just 'will', only now that Jakarta's flooded, its all 'will-will-will' again. So who's to blame Dad? The government?

Man: No! The water! Stupid!

Almost as predictable as the floods that hit Jakarta every wet season – which are invariably blamed on extreme rainfall – is the discourse that follows about flood mitigation, which just as predictably soon gets forgotten until the city floods again.

Kompas - January 26, 2013