This paper explores nature-based solutions (NbS) for Jakarta's current water crisis. The correlation between urban resilience and the urban water cycle that is currently changing proposes a resilient answer, demanding room for nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions utilise nature to address environmental challenges while simultaneously creating social and economic benefits. Jakarta's past efforts to solve flood problems mostly rely on grey infrastructure and neighbourhood-scale solutions. This calls for an integrated grey and green infrastructure with a wider scale, such as the city-scale of a river-basin scale of NbS. This study mentions two examples of nature-based solutions: a living river in Singapore and sponge cities in China. Implementing nature-based solutions in Jakarta requires consideration regarding the opportunities and challenges in the city to optimise the solutions to address the water crisis.