JAKARTA: Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday evening (Jan 3) in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded.
The death toll in Jakarta and surrounding areas rose to 43 as of Friday, the country's disaster mitigation agency said, while tens of thousands of people have been displaced.The floods followed torrential rains on Dec 31 and into the early hours of New Year's day that inundated swathes of Jakarta and nearby towns, home to about 30 million people.
"All clouds moving towards the Greater Jakarta area, which are estimated to lead to precipitation there, will be shot with NaCl material," the agency said.Cloud seeding, or shooting salt flares into clouds in an attempt to trigger rainfall, is often used in Indonesia to put out forest fires during the dry season.
Television footage on Friday showed flood waters still inundating some areas of Southeast Asia's largest city. President Joko Widodo blamed delays in flood control infrastructure projects for the disaster, including the construction of a canal that has been delayed since 2017 due to land acquisition problems.
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