Jakarta – Speaker of the Jakarta legal body Prasetyo Edi Marsudi has actually advised Guv Anies Baswedan to prioritize river normalization and naturalization programs to attend to flooding.
” The governor’s recent strategy to construct seepage wells is ineffective. He needs to rather continue the river normalization and naturalization programs,” Marsudi stated in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The speaker likewise advised Baswedan to focus on normalization programs prior to creating other flood control procedures and examining flooded locations in the city instead of continuing the construction of seepage wells.
The flooding seen in some areas in the city following rain has proved that the building of infiltration wells might be not very efficient as a flood control step in the city in spite of the program’s big budget, he stated.
” The recent flood in Cengkareng and Grogol should be first attended to. The authorities should concentrate on their responsibility because if floods continue, then we have squandered our spending plan,” the speaker mentioned.
Earlier on Tuesday, numerous areas in Jakarta were flooded after rains lashed the city for more than two hours, interfering with traffic as some roadways were water-logged and rendered blockaded.
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Since Wednesday afternoon, the Jakarta Regional Catastrophe Mitigation Agency reported flooding in 102 area units in some parts of the city, with some areas recording water levels of 90 cm.
” Inundation is reported in 102 area units or about 0.335 percent of the province’s 30,470 community systems, and one roadway in the city,” the agency’s catastrophe data and details center head, M Insyaf, stated in Jakarta on Wednesday.
The firm likewise reported a boost in the variety of citizens impacted by the flooding from 815 people, according to reports at twelve noon, to 1,194 people at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, he included.
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