How did Indonesia Capital handle disaster during disaster?
Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, has been suffered from annual floods due to its geographical and morphological area (Texier, 2008). In early 2021, the government of Jakarta was forced to handle the flood amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, while on the other side, the capital is the highest contributor to positive case numbers nationally (National Covid-19 Task Force, 2021). Even though there has been no scientific calculation on how both risks interact, it is not debatable that the pandemic amplifies the impact generated by the flood. For instance, people whose houses are flooded are more vulnerable to being infected by Covid-19 as they have a shortage of clean water and sanitation (Ishiwatari et al., 2020). Therefore, pandemic risk needs to be taken into account in flood risk management, those will bring Jakarta into a big catastrophe in the next pandemic.
