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Search Jakarta residents use a large plastic bucket as a makeshift raft to entertain the children during floods in South Jakarta on Saturday. (Antara Photo/Aprillio Akbar) Weekend Floods Force Hundreds to Leave Home in Jakarta BY :YUSTINUS PAAT Updated at 05:29 p.m. on Saturday, Feb 20,2021] Jakarta. Floods inundated parts of Jakarta on Saturday, forcing thousands to leave their homes following heavy rains in the past few days. Sabdo Kurnianto, the interim head of Jakarta s Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), said 379 families or a total of 1,380 people had to leave their homes as floodwaters reached between 0.4 to 1.8 meters deep, mostly in the South and East Jakarta. ....