(10 Feb 2007) SHOTLIST :
1. Various of Indonesian marines clearing layers of thick mud in main road
2. Various of house inundated with mud with mattresses outside
3. Resident clearing out debris
4. Various of Indonesian marines clearing roads
5. Residents walking through mud
6. SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Mini (no last name given), Flood victim:
"Everyone is cleaning up their houses. The soldiers are helping us to clean up the mud."
7. House inundated with mud
8. Various of residents cleaning a school
9. Kerosene stoves cleaned of mud
10. School's canteen after the flood
11. Wide outside school hall
12. Various of Indonesian marines carrying a resident believed to have been electrocuted trying to turn on a generator
STORYLINE :
People forced to stay in shelters or with relatives in Indonesia's flood-hit capital started returning home on Saturday to clear away mud and debris, as authorities took advantage of receding waters.
Rivers had burst their banks in some parts of the sprawling city, much of which remains inundated following the worst floods in memory, but electricity and phone service had been restored to tens of thousands of residences and businesses in recent days.
One returning man turned on a generator as he started to clean up and was thought to have been electrocuted.
Soldiers evacuated him to a hospital, the military said.
Traffic was slowly moving on roads previously rendered inaccessible, enabling some residents to survey damage in their washed out houses for the first time.
"Everyone is cleaning up their houses," one local resident, who gave her name as Mini said. "The soldiers are helping us to clean up the mud."
Floods last week killed or have been cited as a factor in the deaths at least 57 people, some of whom were electrocuted.
At the peak, officials said about half of Jakarta was covered by up to four metres (12 feet) of water.
Hundreds of square kilometres (miles) of land, mostly rice fields, surrounding the city are still inundated.
Estimates of those made homeless in Jakarta topped out at more than 400-thousand out of a population of 12 (m) million.
Sanitation officials had been prevented from picking up garbage that piled up on streets in some densely packed low-income areas, mixing with the black water during overnight drizzles.
That has intensified fears about disease, with the government saying one person has contracted leptospirosis, a potentially fatal disease borne by water contaminated by rat urine.
So far no cases of tetanus or other serious waterborne disease have been reported.

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