[1] In the past the river was clean and one of the tourist attractions during the Dutch East Indies administration, but due to denser housing on the banks and lack of maintenance, the water turned dark and filled with trash, causing routine flooding in rainy seasons.

However, in August 2016, the luxurious and also iconic area of South Jakarta, Kemang, was inundated by the overflow of Krukut after some protecting walls were damaged due to unprecedented high discharge.

However, since then many buildings have been illegally erected along the banks, and people have thrown household trash in the river, even after the cleaning in 2017, the width of Krukut became as narrow as 1.5 meter at some points (according to Iskandar, the head of Balai Besar Wilayah Sungai Ciliwung-Cisadane/BBWSCC).

[2] The Krukut River has a length of 31.39 kilometres (19.50 mi), with a watershed area (Indonesian: Daerah Pengaliran Sungai) of 84.99 km2.

This project was part of a flood handling strategy, involving the removal of some 8,000 people from the housing on the river banks of Kali Krukut Cideng canal (Kompas, 21 February 1971).

[9] The government of Jakarta also vowed to evict luxury houses that illegally occupied the designated open green space along the Krukut river banks, which was caused by a heavy flood in Kemang and its surroundings in August 2016.