sery for hundreds of thousands of people camping under make-shift shelters after days of floods. However, an official at the Jakarta Flood Crisis center said the latest flooding was less widespread than in the past week.
The official, Kartawi, added that water levels at sluice gates controlling flows into the largely flat, low-lying city had returned to normal in all cases but one.
The death toll from the floods, Jakarta's worst for at least five years, remained at about 50, the official said, with around 230,000 still displaced.
In the Prumtung cemetery in east Jakarta, hundreds of people were living under tents made of plastic next to gravestones after their homes were flooded, relying on food handouts.
"I've already been here for seven days with four children," said Kusmiah, who uses just one name.
With so many displaced since the floods started late last week, there are concerns about disease and sanitation in the city and its suburbs, home to an estimated 14 million people.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged to maintain supplies of food and medicine to those affected.
"The overall situation is improving, even though we still expect that the rain will return in Jakarta," he told a news conference.
The heavy overnight rains largely subsided in the capital on Thursday, but the meteorology agency said there could be more rains in the next few days.
Officials and green groups have blamed excessive construction in Jakarta's water catchment areas for making the floods worse.
In Kampung Melayu, one of the worst-hit areas, the floods had receded despite the latest rain, although water remained more than 1-meter deep in some places, an official said.
"I still worry that the house floods whenever it rains," resident Saniah told Reuters Television, as she tried to clean her kitchen utensils in water collected after recent rain.
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