Floods kill 20, leave 200,000 homeless

? Floodwaters reached as high as 13 feet in Indonesia’s capital, where at least 20 people were killed and 200,000 were forced from their homes.

Four days of rain have inundated the city of 12 million, where the government dispatched medical teams on rubber rafts to try to prevent the spread of diarrhea and dysentery.

Indonesia’s meteorological agency was forecasting rain for the next two weeks.

Environment Minister Racmat Witoelar blamed poor urban planning for the disaster, telling the Jakarta Post: “Authorities hand out (building permits) even though they clearly violate environmental impact studies.”