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Getting Readier

for Flood Risk

People in RW (community unit) 16, Cililitan Subdistrict, East Jakarta
become more skilled and ready for the upcoming flood risk, since their
area was set to be the resilient village (Kampung Tangguh Bencana).

lood becomes part of the people living in occured in 2007. At that moment, water from Simulation
process for
Cililitan subdistrict, East Jakarta. Almost Ciliwung river got overflowed and inundated
evacuating
Fin every rainy season, the area gets the area for 3 meters high. “I brought my things victims of
submerged by floodwater. There are seven to the roof, but the water exceeded the roof disaster in
neighborhood units (RT) which always get high so I lost all of my things into the water,” he Kampung
Tangguh
flooded from time to time, for it is passed by told JaKita.
Bencana
the Ciliwung river that often gets overflow if the (resilient village).
water volume at Katulampa and Depok sluice He admitted that even when the area where he Foto
gate increases. lives always get inundated by flood, residents of Jakarta BPBD
RW 16 always help each other to get through it.
Ujang, one of the residents at RT 10 RW 16 in They collect assistances, prepare public kitchen
Cililitan, said that severe flooding had once and shelters. “People in this RW are very solid,

they help each other,” said Ujang. in this KTB program was very helpful for them.

Haryono, the head of RW 16, was grateful for During the simulation event, East Jakarta
the area being set as resilient village (KTB). administration gave skill-trainings for the
He hoped that people in RW 16 would be more volunteers on how to handle flood during
prepared in handling floods. He hoped that the pandemic time. They were also being trained
mitigation process will be more organized, too. on how to work with the regional working units
Moreover, he hoped that the teamwork between (UKPD); from building shelters for refugees,
the residents and many parties such as Sudinkes how to implement health protocols and how to
and Sudinsos (East Jakarta’s Healthcare and handle evacuation process.
Social agency), also with Jakarta Disaster
Management Agency (BPBD) will be more solid, Haryono had arranged volunteers from RW 16,
too. “That’s the advantage we get from this KTB with a total of 46 people, and divided them to
program,” Haryono told JaKita. several groups: public kitchen group, logistic
distribution, evacuation and healthcare group.
Today, RW 16 had received disaster mitigation “They’ll have their roles when the flood comes,”
facilities such as lifeboats and tents for he said.
evacuation from the government of Jakarta.
The locations set for refugee shelters are RPTRA Meanwhile, Nurdin, head of the volunteers
(child-friendly public space) Cililitan and SDN group in RW 16 said that some of the volunteers
03 Cililitan. However, Haryono told us that during had been given trainings on disaster mitigation
this pandemic time, the mitigation process process. “Our people are no longer afraid to
must not be done carelessly, and the simulation face floodings,” he ended. gro

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