On Jakarta's Weather Forecast

On Jakarta’s Weather Forecast

Well, tomorrow I’ve got to water my garden. According to the Weather Forecast on TV, Jakarta would be clouded. The forecast was wrong. Thank you, as an unexpected reward, surprise, it was raining, so me and the Public City’s Park Service of Jakarta was free, on holiday from watering the gardens.

Jakarta by this time had grown so vast as to cause the forecast in certain areas of Jakarta to be incorrect, but I had to water my garden more often as according to forecast it should be raining, on the contrary did not rain.

Only in the rainy- and warm-season the weather forecast of whole Jakarta was accurate. But what’s the use of a weather forecast as everyone knows that it’s going to rain or to be sunny according to the season. Except perhaps when there would occur the opposite, contrary to what is the season.

Not just Jakarta as a whole, the whole island of Java might be raining, for days, causing floods. More over, all the water of rivers, lakes, wells has the rain as their origin.

How easy it is for Nature to water, wet the earth. Without any effort, without means of transport, water-tanks: cubic measures of water is transported so high, higher than sky-scrapers, even high mountains, without any apparatus for distilling water, yet so clear and purer than PAM drinking water. And it did so with such ease as easy and as light as blowing just cigarette smoke, then returns it as rain like a kind of blessing, so free for all the living on the earth.

From Business Indonesia, May 19, 1993