Jakarta floods: cloud seeding planes try to break up heavy rain

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Indonesia carried out cloud seeding to try to prevent further rainfall over the capital, Jakarta, and surrounding areas as the death toll reached 47 on Saturday amid flash floods and landslides.

Two small planes had earlier been readied to drop sodium chloride to break up potential rain clouds in the skies above the Sunda Strait, Indonesia's technology agency said.