Blocked By Administration, Mberok Pump House Doesn't Work, Ganjar: Ask For His Phone Number, Turned On Today

JAKARTA - Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo discovered that the flood pump was not functioning due to administrative problems during a sudden inspection of the Mberok Pump House in Semarang City, Sunday, February 7.

When conducting an inspection at the pump house located in the Kota Lama area, Ganjar saw that the efforts to remove the floods were not optimal. The clerk only functions 1 of the 3 pumps installed.

Ganjar immediately asked the officer why the other two pumps were not functioning.

"It has not been turned on due to administrative problems, Sir. The work has not been submitted," said an officer at the Mberok Pump House as reported by Antara, Sunday, February 7 afternoon.

Responding to the officer's answer, Ganjar said that there shouldn't be any administrative problems that hinder the handling of floods, especially in an emergency situation like now.

The governor then instructed the officers to function all existing pumps. He invited officers to enter the pump house to turn on all pump engines, but they failed because they were locked.

"But I asked for it to be turned on today. I asked for the telephone number, later I will check that it is alive," he said.

Ganjar emphasized that handling emergency conditions requires speed. Problems that hinder flood handling, such as administrative constraints in the operation of pumping machines, must be handled quickly, especially when the pumps at the Mberok Pump House become the foundation for flood management in the Kota Lama Area.

"If this does not recede immediately, even though it is only sucked from it, then it cannot be just because the administration is hampering it. I ask all three to be encouraged and hopefully today it will not rain heavily so that the puddle can be sucked up," said the Governor.

Head of UPTD Flood Pump Management for the Middle Area of the Semarang City Public Works Office, Yoyok Wiratmoko, said that some of the pumps in the Mberok Pump House could not be used because they had not been officially handed over to the city government.

"It is the PUPR Ministry that is working on it, and it has not been submitted to the Semarang City Government, so to operate it still within the PUPR domain, we have communicated," he said.

Yoyok stated that he would follow up on the Governor's instructions to ensure that all the pumps in the Mberok Pump House could be used to suck up floods.

In addition to instructing the optimization of pump functions at the Mberok Pump House, Ganjar asked PT KAI to find the cause of inundation at Tawang Station.

"So we have to find the cause of the inundation, if there is a drainage leak, then it must be fixed as soon as possible, because the rainfall in Semarang is quite extreme, and it is estimated that BMKG will have this condition for a week," he said.