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MEDIA JAYA | 09 2020
Personnel of
the city’s Water
Resources Agency
(SDA) uses heavy
equipment to
dredge the river in
Rio-Rio reservoir
area, Jakarta.
Captions
Safran H.
al big rivers in the city: In East Jakarta, the more homeworks to do, to build the re-
dredging project will be done in Kali Cili- maining 16.34 acre of reservoirs from the
wung, from Kampung Melayu area to Jem- acquired land. 11
batan Tongkek for 5.3 km. In South Jakarta, This year, they have planned four proj-
the project will be conducted in Kali Cili- ects to be done: to acquire land for Pondok
wung from the Jembatan Tongtek area to Rangon reservoir, Lebak Bulus reservoir,
Manggarai sluice gate for 2.7 km. Cakung Semper Timur reservoir and Brigif
Next, in Central Jakarta the dredging proj- reservoir. While in 2021, they have planned
ect will be held in West Kali Kanal Banjir on building the reservoirs in Pondok Ran-
(KBB) from Karet sluice gate to Jembatan gon, Brigif, Lebak Bulus, and Embung Wira-
Roxy for 13.9 km. While for West Jakarta, jasa. They also need to finish Cimanggis,
the program will be held in Kali KBB from Kampung Rambutan and South Sunter res-
Jelambar to Season City area for 1.5 km. ervoirs.
The dredging also held in Kali Adem from
Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) area to Muara With the development of Pondok Rangon
Angke area for 3.2 km in North Jakarta. reservoir, it is hoped that it can cut the
debit of water exceeds by 20% from the Kali
From reservoirs to polder systems Sunter stream, and by the development of
Brigif reservoir it can cut the debit of water
Not only they conducted grebek lumpur by 20% from the same stream. While from
program, SDA agency of Jakarta also built the Lebak Bulus reservoir, it is hoped that
47 polder systems. Currently they have it can cut the water debit from Kali Grogol
built the systems in 31 locations, and man- stream.
aged the capacity improvement for the ex-
isting 10 polder systems. The Jakarta government has also conduct-
ed acceleration for coastal embankments
Besides polder system, reservoir also be- systems. And to prevent the risk of flood-
comes an important asset to control the ing, the city government has encouraged
possible flooding in Jakarta. Current- the development of vertical drainages in
ly there are only 55.07 acre of reservoirs residential areas. They targetted to build
made in Jakarta; the city government has 300,000 drainages in 2022. ros
