Not even Jakarta’s massive floods over the weekend managed to stop the union of this couple, with a video that captured them braving the deluge on their way to tie the knot having gone viral.
Twitter user @windysatria tweeted the video on Saturday, saying that the couple — his neighbors — was not going to let anything stand in the way between them and getting married at the local Religious Affairs Office (KUA).
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Pagi ini tetangga gw sukses menembus banjir buat nikah…walau hrs pake bak bayi 🤣 #banjir pic.twitter.com/OJvRihXujl
— windy satria (@windysatria) February 20, 2021
“This morning, my neighbors successfully broke through the flood to get married… though they had to use a baby bathtub #flood,” the tweet reads.
The bride and groom-to-be, clad in all-white Sundanese wedding attire, smiled and laughed to the camera while being carried by their neighbors on the water. The bride sat on a baby bathtub while the groom can be seen squeezing himself in a green bucket in the video.
Another clip showed the bride getting hugs and kisses from her neighbors or relatives, who were visibly shedding happy tears for her.
Nih tambahin lagi #banjir pic.twitter.com/6bLIrbYGAd
— windy satria (@windysatria) February 20, 2021
The video below shows a closer look of the groom, who threw a peace sign to the camera while the man who filmed it said “Like and share, subscribe” before breaking into laughter.
Part 2 nih pic.twitter.com/mg6a5Tqqn3
— windy satria (@windysatria) February 20, 2021
The first video has amassed more than 3,600 retweets and 15,300 likes at the time of writing, and has been widely shared on other platforms, including WhatsApp. While these clips show how far Indonesians would go hand-in-hand to help out one another, they’re also proof that the government must simply do better to prevent floods from occurring every rainy season.
As of this morning, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said that Jakarta is relatively flood-free. According to the agency, floods throughout the capital temporarily displaced 3,311 people from their homes on Saturday, followed by 1,332 people on Sunday. Five people — four children who drowned in the flood and one elderly male who was locked inside his house — were killed in the floods.
Floods have all but subsided in the handful of neighborhoods still flooded as of Sunday evening.
The flooding over the weekend was the deadliest in Jakarta since the New Year’s Eve 2020 floods, which killed 67 people in the capital. The latest flooding was the result of intense and frequent rainfall throughout Saturday and early on Sunday, which was predicted to be the heaviest since NYE 2020.
The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has warned of more heavy rain up until at least Wednesday in the capital, which may trigger more floods and landslides.
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