The national project of Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD), or commonly known as Giant Sea Wall, keeps being accelerated by Jakarta Provincial Government. For the first phase, Jakarta Public Works Department is going to repair and strengthen the embankments in northern Jakarta using allocated budget as much as Rp 1 trillion.

We’re budgeting Rp 1 trillion to repair and strengthen the embankments in northern Jakarta

“We’re budgeting Rp 1 trillion to repair and strengthen the embankments in northern Jakarta. The budget will be used starting from consultation phase, planning, until physical work implementation. The embankments are strengthened before the Giant Sea Wall built, so tidal floods won’t reach the land,” stated Head of Flood Control Infrastructures and Facilities Maintenance Section for Jakarta Public Works Department, Heria Suwandi, Monday (9/15).

However, Suwandi also admitted that the budget cannot be disbursed for now because the project is still in auction process in Jakarta Goods and Services Procurement Unit (ULP).

“The budget activity is named Coastal Embankments Construction to support NCICD. We’re working it out in ULP, so the project could be auctioned this year,” he uttered.

According to Suwandi, embankments in northern Jakarta are as long as 32 kilometers. But, not all embankment works are done by Jakarta Provincial Government, because most of them are handed out to developers. Jakarta Provincial Government is only obligated to work on eight kilometers. From that amount, three kilometers of embankment has not been built, while the remaining five kilometers have finished, but still need to be strengthened and heightened.

For information, the level of tidal floods could reach up to 2.5 meters high, while existing embankments are only 2.4 meters high. Thus, eventually all embankments will be built for as high as five meters.

“We’ll heighten all (embankments) to five meters tall,” he told.