City Continues to Cover Citizens in Flood-affected Areas

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, on Tuesday (2/25), visited the Manggarai sluice gate in the afternoon to announce the latest update on flooded areas that continued to get better.

"In this morning, 294 RWs are flooded and decreased up to 236 in the evening. As we know, there are 1,522 streets in Jakarta but 72 of them are flooded, it means water level is still 30 cm high and cannot be crossed. I also received another data that 4.7 percent of 375 schools are flooded. Moreover, the number of refugees is 12,000 to 15,000 in 74 refuge camps. Certainly we already prepare and send logistic aid," he expressed, as quoted by Jakarta PPID's press release.

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Jakarta Social Agency Head Irmansyah expressed he had made coordination with the Social Agency and Tagana to help flood victims in flooded areas while observing the current situation.

"We deploy Tagana and KSB teams spread over 84 locations to record the victims' data, evacuate victims to a safer place, especially to vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, children, people with disabilities and other special groups. We also provide public kitchens and psychosocial services to meet the basic needs of victims who are in refugee camps, as well as tents," he explained.

In details, there were six public kitchens comprising one in the Social Agency and five in the Social Sub-agency, including independent kitchens managed by the locals and are placed in a disaster prone urban village (KSB).

Those kitchens were spread in Central Jakarta (12 KSBs) and one independent kitchen, North Jakarta (18 KSBs) and 1 independent kitchen, West Jakarta (18 KSBs) and 4 independent kitchens, South Jakarta (19 KSBs) and 7 independent kitchens and East Jakarta (17 KSBs) and 6 independent kitchens.

While facilities and infrastructures, there were RTU cars, public kitchen cars, water tank cars, water kitchen cars, meal operational cars, rubber boats, trail motorcycles, tents and goods operational cars. The city also distributed logistic aid in the form of packaged rice meals, rice, instant noodles, blankets, pampers, sanitary napkins, toiletries, clothes, tents, tarpaulins and mattresses, so forth.

As for the information, the latest information announces water level at Katulampa gate has dropped from 965 cm to 850 cm high.