Floods displace thousands in Indonesia

More than 30,000 Indonesians have fled their homes in the capital due to flooding that has left five dead, officials said yesterday, with people using rubber dinghies and wading through waist-deep water to reach safer ground. Many parts of Jakarta were under murky, brown water after days of torrential rain produced the city's first significant floods of the months-long rainy season. Buildings in some parts of the sprawling capital, which has a population of more than 10 million and is regularly...