Beware Of High Rainfall In 2024, Moeldoko Asks To Pay Attention To The Influence Of Planted Results On Political Social Situations

JAKARTA - The Presidential Chief of Staff, (KSP) Moeldoko appealed to the possibility of a real threat lurking the survival of world food production, including in the country. This is due to predictions of the peak of the rainy season in late January to February 2024. It is said that the increase in the earth's temperature has a major effect on agriculture and plantations. So that before 2024 later, Moeldoko said the need for governance of domestic food problems. Although with the import of 3 million tons of rice from India and Thailand, said Moeldoko, it is necessary to make special preparations so that there is no failure to plant and harvest. Ministry and BMKG'' in order to synergize to monitor the development of weather information," said Moeldoko in the Coordination Meeting on Optimizing Food Agriculture Results and Horticulture in Bina Graha, Jakarta, Friday 29 December. Moeldoko also stated that national political conditions could also affect food issues. In response to this, he added that the food issue should not be exacerbated by crop failure. We will enter the political year,'' we understand that the food issue is not just a matter of this stomach can be shifted to political affairs, added''. Meanwhile, the Head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, Dwikorita Karnawati, said that periodically BMKG will continue to seek predictions as well as monitoring through its monthly sea-front temperature satellite. At the periodic supervision will be carried out 3 times per 10 days. Regarding El Nino, it is clear that Dwikorita will still occur but will not have a major impact as in July to October until October. There is a wind from Asia that brings water vapor, and this will minimize El Nino and only affect the slow rainy season, which should have been in October but in November,'' continued Dwikorita. Furthermore, in March 2024, added Dwikorita agriculture will be affected in Java because monthly rainfall levels enter at high categories with rainfall constraints reaching 300-500 mm in 1 month. In addition to the problem of harvesting and horticulity, said Dwikorita, it needs to be watched by the occurrence of Karhutla in 2024.

Among other things, such as in 1959 there was a Presidential Decree, in 1965 the G30S incident, in 1974 the Malari incident, in 1984 with a petrus incident, then in 1998 there was a very strong El Nino and reforms occurred. This was then forwarded to the Government, so it could begin to be anticipated from 2015 to 2019. "It needs to be watched out for weather conditions with natural conditions, there is graphic data showing the occurrence of El Nino which resulted in the drought being correlated with socio-political disturbances," said Dwikorita.