Helping others help themselves In January of 2002, there was serious flooding in Indonesia, and Jakarta was under water for a solid month. When the water finally receded at the end of February, the village of Kapuk Murua, located at "the black heart of Jakarta" where the Kali Angke River reaches the sea, was at each high tide steeped in seawater heavily polluted with garbage and human waste.
自力更生，就地取材二○○二年一月，印尼發生嚴重水患，整整一個月，首都雅加達盡是汪洋，待二月下旬積水漸退，位於「雅加達黑色心臟」紅溪河出海口的卡布村，卻在每日漲潮時浸泡於佈滿垃圾、人畜糞便的污水中。