Water remains in most areas.

from THE JAKARTA POST -- FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009 -- PAGE 2 What lies beneath the stagnant brown flood water that is now an all- too-common site on Jakarta's streets is a sewerage system that has proven time and again incapable of carrying away the heavy rainfall that hits the city each new year with the regularity of clock work.

Power cuts Thursday left many residents alone in the dark in their flooded homes, and those whose houses had not taken on water were not willing to stray far from their homes in fear that more rain could come.

"I cannot rest or sleep well these days," Agung, a resident of Kelapa Gading in North Jakarta, told The Jakarta Post on …