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Drone footage of flood-hit Indonesian capital

In Tangerang, a city part of the greater Jakarta metropolitan area, hundreds were evacuated as rescue operation continued.

In Jakarta, some 1,380 Jakarta residents were evacuated from southern and eastern areas of the city, home to 10 million people, after floodwaters reached up to 1.8 meters high in some areas, said Sabdo Kurnianto, the acting head of Jakarta's disaster mitigation agency in a statement.