The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said flooding in Jakarta that occurred from Tuesday to Thursday killed 11 people, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported.

"Five died of electrocution, four of old age and sickness and two children died due to drowning," BNPB Head for Public Relations and Information Affairs Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said here on Friday.

One of the children died after he fell from his bed on a flooded floor while the other died after he slipped and washed away into a river.

"The BNPB's focus now is to save more lives," Sutopo said. The BNPB has coordinated with the state-owned electricity firm PLN to help prevent electrocution cases.

"But in reality, many residents go out of their house to observe the floods which in fact it is quite dangerous," he said.

Meanwhile the Jakarta branch of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) said the Jakarta floods had paralysed at least 300 factories.

"About 300 factories totally stopped production but we have yet to receive confirmation on a plan to relocate them because floods also cut off our communications and electricity supplies," Deputy Chairman of Kadin Jakarta, Sarman Simanjorang said.

Thursday`s floods inundated industrial areas in East Jakarta with flood waters reaching a level of between 20 cm and 100 cm. As a result, at least 300 factories stopped operations.

He said that the losses incurred as a result of the stoppage of the factories` operations were estimated at Rp1.5 billion (RM1=Rp3,201) per day.

The Kadin official expressed hope that government would overcome the problem
soon.

"Many employers complained that the floods caused their workers to stay off the factories thus halting production activities," Sarman said.

Floods also delayed financial and business transactions. The Business community hoped that the central and regional governments to coordinate in coping with the flood problems in the capital city, he said.

Earlier, Minister of Industry Hidayat recommended that industrial activities be carried out in one industrial area.

Office and daily activities in Jakarta were almost completely paralysed, traffic jams were seen in various parts of the city, while many other roads in Central Jakarta, including the National Monument (Monas) square, were also submerged.

The number of residents who were affected by floods reached 97.608 families or 248,846 people. Of the number 15,447 were evacuated to emergency shelters, makeshifts or tents.

The BNPB could not make an estimate on the losses incurred by the floods.

Jakarta floods in 2007 inundated 231.8 sq km of the capital city, killed 80 victims, caused 320,000 people to be evacuated and incurred a loss of Rp4.3 trillion. (RM1=Rp3,201).