If the gentle reader in those days, the little picture under "Jakarta weather" looks right in the sidebar, this is mostly gray, and often filled with water drops. This is because it is now rainy season here in Jakarta. Hardest hit it usually is February. It is pleasant during the rainy season. The temperatures go back a little. It is very pleasant to stay during this time in the outdoors when it is not raining.
This year the rain held back fortunately much as possible. Starting this week there was the first really heavy rain. On Monday, when I was in Semarang, there has been raining quite heavily. During the entire night. In the morning during rush hour, then the whole city was virtually silent. The effect of heavy rain in this city is often a complete standstill of public life. Large parts of the city lie below sea level. The drainage system can hardly be described as such. It may be too much surface sealed so the water does not seep. Streets are designed so that the water collects on them. Underpasses to run. This is still the behavior of the inhabitants. By me so "loved" bikers block all roads where you just stop under bridges or underpasses. After two minutes, they will then stop next to each other on all tracks along the lines of "If I can not continue, then the rest will remain available even kindly."
Particularly severe impacts for us on our daily commute to the customer in Buaran, East Jakarta. The road is already there in a short rain quite heavily affected. This week has overtaken us twice and it is thus the arithmetic, it is more common in the course of February. Currently, the impact for us, "only" way to work that much more time consuming and may also be much broader. It may be that the day will come when it no longer worthwhile to break, because the journey one way takes 4 hours and more.

The images I shot from a moving taxi on the way to work.