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        "id": 1146516,
        "msgid": "flood-gives-sinking-feeling-to-traders-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-03-09 00:00:00",
        "title": "Flood gives sinking feeling to traders",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Flood gives sinking feeling to traders The Jakarta Post, Jakarta It was far from business as usual at Mal Mega Bekasi shopping complex on Tuesday, with floodwater inundating the center since early Sunday. Floodwater on the ground floor was still up to one meter deep. One of the 600 traders in the mall, Alay, 45, said the 2.5- meter-deep flood on Sunday had destroyed his merchandise -- mostly electronic goods.",
        "content": "<p>Flood gives sinking feeling to traders<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>It was far from business as usual at Mal Mega Bekasi shopping<br>\ncomplex on Tuesday, with floodwater inundating the center since<br>\nearly Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Floodwater on the ground floor was still up to one meter deep.<\/p>\n<p>One of the 600 traders in the mall, Alay, 45, said the 2.5-<br>\nmeter-deep flood on Sunday had destroyed his merchandise --<br>\nmostly electronic goods.<\/p>\n<p>The traders, he said, were demanding that the building<br>\nmanagement company, PT Karsindo Utama, pay them compensation.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is stated in our contracts that the ground floor will not<br>\nbe affected by the annual flooding in Bekasi,\" he was quoted as<br>\nsaying by Antara.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, municipality pump trucks were still pumping out<br>\nwater from around the mall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the building management announced that the mall,<br>\nthe biggest in Bekasi, would be closed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>PT Karsindo director Gunarso said he hoped that people would<br>\nunderstand that the flood was an act of God.<\/p>\n<p>\"However, we are responsible and will pay them compensation<br>\nafter we calculate the extent of the losses,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday's flood, considered the biggest ever in the<br>\nmunicipality and upstream areas, not only hit the shopping mall,<br>\nwhich is located at the Bekasi Barat toll gate -- alongside Giant<br>\nhypermarket, Metropolitan Mall I and II, the Ramayana and Hero<br>\ndepartment stores, and the Horison Hotel -- but also residential<br>\nareas.<\/p>\n<p>People living in the Jaka Kencana housing complex in Pekayon<br>\ndemanded that the administration fix the levees lining the Bekasi<br>\nand Cikeas rivers, whose poor condition they said contributed to<br>\nthe huge flood, besides the fact that continuous heavy rain fell<br>\nfor over 10 hours starting on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\"These embankments were built two years ago but now they are<br>\nbadly cracked ... We have frequently told the administration to<br>\nfix them, but our pleas always fell on deaf ears,\" Mustafa, a<br>\nlocal resident, was quoted as saying by Tempointeraktif.com.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't want to have another huge flood like Sunday's,\" he<br>\nadded.<\/p>",
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