Anies' Subordinates Make Infiltration Wells Next To BKT So A Joke, How Come?

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JAKARTA - Chairman of the Jakarta City Citizens Forum (FAKTA) Azas Tigor Nainggolan was surprised by the construction of infiltration wells next to the East Flood Canal or East Flood Canal (BKT).

Tigor questioned why DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's subordinates built infiltration wells to accommodate inundation near the river.

"The funny position of the infiltration well is that it was built close to the East Flood Canal (BKT). What's the point of making an infiltration well next to the BKT river, which is so big and long?" Tigor told reporters on Friday, November 12.

According to Tigor, the DKI Provincial Government does not need to build infiltration wells around the BKT, because the BKT itself is a river that functions as a place to collect and distribute water.

"Indeed, what should have been built in BKT is to build or repair secondary canals to channel water into the BKT river," said Tigor. The position of the infiltration well does not function as a place for rainwater to seep. Water remains stagnant in the infiltration well.

Tigor then satirized the program initiated by Anies. He said the infiltration well was to absorb the budget from the 2021 Jakarta APBD, which had entered the end of the 2021 fiscal year.

"Infiltration wells were only built at the right time, namely in November 2021, at the end of the 2021 fiscal year. So indeed Anies's infiltration wells were made for budget absorption in the 2021 Jakarta APBD, not for water absorption wells," he said.