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TOP REPORT DKI) has began to conduct mitigation pro- Looking back from the previous flooding
cess to control possible flooding. For ex-
in January, Jakarta still need an approxi-
mately 2,888 acre of ‘blue space’ to contain
ample, the Water Resources Agency (SDA)
runoff water of 1,032 m3/second. Besides
have started the river dredging program
blue spaces, the city’s Parks and Ceme-
in flood-control reservoirs, and to acceler-
ate the development of priority conservoirs
spaces’ (RTH) for the rain water retention
and polder systems. teries agency also need to add the ‘green
and detention. As for the budget, the Fund
The mitigation process became more ur- Management Agency should prepare fis-
gent as it’s been stipulated in the Guber- cal space for unpredictable expense due
natorial Decree (Ingub) No.52/2020 on The to flood control management.
Acceleration of Flood Control System Im-
provement during Climate Change Era. For the flood mitigation, it was stated in the
Climate change indeed has impacts on decree that the BPBD and the Social Affair
potential hydrometerology disasters like agency to prepare logistics and facilities
floodings. According to Muhammad Fakh- and to be more responsive and adaptive
rudin from Research Center for Limnology due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation,
at Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), cli- which hasn’t ended yet. They need to fo-
mate change can trigger extreme rainfall, cus on the evacuation process, to prepare
like what happened in Jakarta last Janu- shelters for the affected residents.
ary.
According to the acting head (plt) of the
The flood control decree was signed by executing task force at BPBD Jakarta, Sab-
the governor Anies Baswedan on Septem- do Kurnianto, the agency has developed
8 ber 15th 2020, addressing the city’s work- a map of flood-prone areas, completed
ing units (SKPD), all of the city’s majors and with the information of red zones and ac-
also to the heads of districts and subdis- tive cases of COVID-19 areas. The heads of
tricts. There are seven substantial points subdistricts were asked to prepare alter-
mentioned in the decree, for which they are native location for shelters, three times as
needed to the control and mitigation man- much. One of the subdistrict heads Dada-
agement in the time before flooding, when ng Yudi Hartono, the head of Bidara Cina
the flooding occurs and after the flooding. subdistrict in East Jakarta, has prepared
For the management control before flood- alternative location for refugee shelters. As
ing, the Governor called on the Communi- we’ve known, there are two flood-prone ar-
cation, Information and Statistics agency, eas in Bidara Cina: in community unit (RW)
the Disaster Management agency (BPBD) 11 with 5 neighborhood units (RT) and RW 7
and Water Resources agency (SDA) to de- with 7 RTs.
velop an anticipative, predictive, smart
and integrated system to detect flooding Previously, all of the shelters for RW 7 res-
and provide early warning for the commu- idents were located in the subdistrict of-
nities. Therefore, they will be informed of fice’s hall, and at the SKTT building for RW
the possible flooding a day before so it can 11 residents. In the future, all of the shelters
reduce the impact. for RW 11 residents will be placed in different
designated areas, namely the child-friend-
The governor through the decree also re- ly public space (RPTRA) Permata Intan and
quested the SDA agency to ensure all of RPTRA Rusumami Beriman, Al Abror Mosque
the infrastructures for flood control such as and Darussalam prayer halls. While for the
water pumps, drainages, rivers and reser- RW 7 residents, the shelters will be located
voirs can operate optimally, as well as for at the Otista sports arena (GOR) and hall of
the development of vertical drainages, in- SD 05 Bidara Cina. With the availability of
filtration wells, and retention ponds as ad- separated areas, the refugees can main-
ditional storage for the runoff rain water. tain their physical distances. yen/nis
