Kembangan Utara Residents Have Returned to Homes as Floods Recede

At 12:08 AM, they have started to return to their respective homes

Residents who had been displaced to Saadah Mosque have returned to their homes when floodwaters started to recede after inundating areas of Jakarta, precisely in RT 11/04, Kembangan Utara, West Jakarta yesterday.

Kembangan Utara Urban Village Head Rudi Hariyanto expressed the number of refugees reached 15 households or 45 people.

Inundation in Several Areas in Jakarta Has Gradually Receded

To them, his party had distributed breads and mineral water in the morning and 50 boxes of packaged rice meals from the West Jakarta Sub-agency in the afternoon.

"At 12:08 AM, they have started to return to their respective homes," he expressed, Tuesday (9/22).

Additionally, the urban village also deployed 30 PPSU personnel to the location in order to handle floodwaters and to monitor the connecting water channels in the area.

"They are assigned to monitor and make sure no waste to slow the water into the channel," he stated.