Acting Governor Improves SOP of Ciliwung Waterway to Reduce Flood
- Biro Pers Sekretariat Presiden
Jakarta – Jakarta Acting Governor Heru Budi Hartono will evaluate the function of the Ciliwung Waterway, East Jakarta in order to reduce flooding in the capital city.
"So, yesterday the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) will be improved," Hartono said on Wednesday in Central Jakarta.
Hartono also said that the Ciliwung sodetan functions when the Ciliwung Waterway is almost full. Therefore, his party will change the mechanism as a form of evaluation of the SOP.
Pj Gubernur DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono
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Later, he will ask his team to open the Ciliwung Waterway even though the water in the river is not full.
"So if possible, as soon as water flows into the Ciliwung Waterway, it enters the sodetan first. So far, we have to wait for a certain position before it flows,"
Hartono remarked that the Ciliwung Cisadane River Basin Center and DKI Jakarta Water Resources Agency are currently discussing changes to the SOP.
"Yesterday I asked immediately (the river water flow) to be divided into two (to the Ciliwung Riverand the East Flood Canal) so that Bidara Cina is not like yesterday," he remarked.
Earlier, the DKI Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) recorded that 54 East Jakarta and South Jakarta RTs were flooded on Sunday, November 5 at 12 PM due to heavy rains that flushed the Jakarta area and its surroundings.
Presiden Jokowi Resmikan Sodetan Ciliwung
- Biro Pers Sekretariat Presiden
It was recorded that through the rainfall monitoring station of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), there was rain with very heavy to extreme intensity in Jagorawi Bogor of 156 millimeters (mm), Depok 1 of 148 mm, Pasar Minggu of 126 mm, and at the Katulampa Dam of 111 mm.
Meanwhile, BPBD also recorded that the inundation earlier happened in 22 RTs, is currently 54 RT or 0.175 percent of the 30,772 RTs in the DKI Jakarta area.
The locations that were flooded were 6 RTs in Cililitan Village with water levels reaching 1.6 meters, 14 RTs in Cawang Village with water levels up to 1.6 meters, 5 RTs in Bidara Cina Village with water levels of up to 2.5 meters, and 27 RTs in Kampung Melayu Village with water levels up to 1.75 meters.
Meanwhile, the distribution of RT that was flooded in South Jakarta was 1 RT in Rawajati Village with a water level of 60 centimeters, and 1 RT in Kebon Baru Village with a water level of up to 60 centimeters.
