Situ Gintung Jebol Embankment Tragedy In Today's Memory, March 27, 2009

JAKARTA Memories of today, 15 years ago, March 27, 2009, Situ Gintung's embankment in Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten broke down. The incident brought deep sorrow. All because those who died reached 100 people and hundreds of houses were damaged and destroyed.

Previously, the embankment made in the Netherlands in the 1932-1933 era was seen not being maintained. The condition of damage such as cracks in the walls has caught the attention of local residents. They tried to report it to the local government, but the power of attorney ignored it.

Situ Gintung Embankment was once a mainstay for irrigation. However, this is not the case with the modern era. He is old. The presence of Situ Gintung no longer has significant benefits. All because the existing rice fields have been replaced with housing development and so on.

The embankment began to show damage in the 2000s era. Routine checks that incidentally are notable are rarely carried out. Local residents also took the initiative to see cracks in the embankment since 2006. Problems arose. The report was responded to as well.

Empunya kuasa mencoba menurunkan orang untuk memperbaiki. Namun, tak efektif. Perbaikan yang dilakukan tak lebih dari semata polesan. Tak dasar sampai masalah yang dikeluhan bisa terselesaikan dengan baik.

This condition is like saving a big disaster. The continuous rain makes the water pile up in Situ Gintung Embankment on March 26, 2009. The volume of water is more than 2.1 million cubic meters. The volume in fact exceeds the maximum capacity of the reservoir.

Malang cannot be rejected. Situ Gintung's embankment broke on March 27, 2009. Cirendeu, Ciputat Tangerang, Banten, was hit by a tsunami. The settlement under the embankment was destroyed by Pratama Housing and Cirendeu Housing.

The overall improvement is still delayed, even though it is also known that there are cracks at the bottom of the runoff (spill way). This kind of neglect attitude is clearly unable to be held. That early Friday morning, this neglect attitude also had to be paid expensively. The embankment broke. Situ Gintung's water volume, the normal 1.5 million cubic meters and is estimated to be 2.1 million cubic meters when heavy rains on Thursday night, spilled in an instant into natural forces with tremendous destructive destructive power.

Some officials, as usual, did not like introspective steps. They chose to blame the intensity of the rain that fell beyond custom. Of course this reason is no longer funny. It has been several years ago, related to the phenomenon of global warming, extreme weather. The government should have calculated the possibility of unusually high rainfall," wrote Tempo Magazine report entitled Situ Gintung Red Light (2009).

Losses from the incident were piled up. The houses of residents who were badly damaged reached 300. Even those who died due to being hit by the flood reached 100 victims. The death of the large number of victims was allegedly because residents did not receive any warning.

They only know that the embankment is no longer feasible. Local residents did not expect the high volume of water to break the embankment. The Indonesian side was grieving. They couldn't contain the sadness because the problem should be quickly overcome so that casualties did not fall.

"Yesterday afternoon it rained heavily from 14.00 WIB to maghrib at 18.00 WIB until the embankment water was full. At night at around 00.00 WIB, the embankment had started to crack, soon it broke, byuurr..." explained the resident of Situ Gintung Village, Mulyadi as quoted on Detik.com page, March 27, 2009.