The Impact Of Duren Sawit's Basement Project Which Swallowed One Victim, Residents' Houses Also Joined Landslides

Evacuation officers for landslide victims at the Duren Sawit office chain project/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

The impact of the landslide office excavation project on Jalan Radin Inten II, Duren Sawit Village, Duren Sawit District, East Jakarta, has an impact on local residents' houses.

Hanafi (55) said that the back of his sister's house, which borders the construction of the three-story office, also landslides to the side of the project.

"The sister's house (backwall) fell all the tools, the washing machine. The drop came from my sister's house, because it was very tight. The foundation was eroded," Hanafi told reporters, Monday, July 31.

The back wall of his sister's house, which borders the construction of the three-story office project, landslides when the occupants of the house were active in front of the house.

At the time of the incident, the occupants of the house only heard a rumbling sound when the walls along with a number of landslide items were on the side of the office basement construction project.

"Hearing suddenly fell all the tools, washing machines. It turned out that (below) there were workers (bunched). One said they had found breathing, another one had not been (discovered)," he said.

Based on observations at the location, there were two units of East Jakarta Fire and Rescue Sub-dept. cars that were deployed to evacuate workers from the pile.

The evacuation was carried out by slowly digging soil piles using East Jakarta Damkar evacuation equipment so that victims could be saved.