Anticipating High Rainfall, North Jakarta Improves Disaster Mitigation

The North Jakarta Government is optimizing disaster mitigation efforts following information from the Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) regarding high rainfall forecast until the end of January.

We ask our personnel to check all existing infrastructure, floodgates, and pumps

Central Jakarta Mayor, Ali Maulana Hakim said, high local rainfall accompanied by high tide could potentially cause inundation, thus the Jakarta Government needed to anticipate and take mitigation efforts immediately. For information, there are several inundation-prone areas in North Jakarta, namely Pademangan, Penjaringan, and Cilincing.

"We ask our personnel to check all existing infrastructure, floodgates, and pumps. Regional heads must be alert and activate disaster posts such as evacuation sites and officers. So, we have been anticipating from the start," he stated, Wednesday (1/19).

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He made sure to keep coordinating with the Jakarta BPBD. Moreover, BPBD personnel had been alerted for 24 hours at the Mayor Office to assist the North Jakarta Government.

"Jakarta BPBD Rapid Response Team (TRC) will mitigate disasters from the start, assist in disaster handling in the areas, and coordinate the needs during the disaster," he stated.