Relocation Of Residents Of Pondok Gede Permai Bekasi Still Must Be In-depth Study
JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has opened up the possibility that the residents of flood victims in Pondok Gede Permai, Bekasi, West Java will be relocated to a new place.
The statement was made by the Head of the BNPB Disaster Data, Information and Communication Center Abdul Muhari, Monday, March 10.
According to Abdul, the basic consideration is that the Pondok Gede Permai housing position is much lower than the river flow barrier behind it. Based on a review, the BNPB team found that the height gap between the embankment and housing was 4-6 meters adrift.
"You can imagine, yes. Indeed, connectivity access there, in Bekasi, is good, but we are talking about the long term, does every year there have to be evacuation efforts?", he said as quoted by ANTARA.
Efforts to relocate residents and control settlements that are commensurate with the Bekasi River which is close to the meeting point of the Cileungsi River - Cikeas River must be carried out for the safety of the community and a sustainable environment.
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This possibility is currently being discussed at the ministerial level to evaluate its feasibility in general, involving the Ministry of Public Works, the Ministry of Housing and Settlements, and the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture.
"Later we can see, evaluating the feasibility of water infrastructure in general, what needs to be addressed, whether the river conditions, the river border or the implications for the relocated population are one of the options, later from the housing ministry to prepare housing land, while the community is handled by the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture," he said.
Apart from that, BNPB ensures that it is ready to assist the Bekasi City Government in an inherent manner to meet logistics needs for flood victims in the city as well as to recover the impact of disasters, where currently almost all public facilities in Bekasi are still muddy with a thickness of 20-40 centimeters, since the flood incident as high as three meters occurred on Tuesday (4/3).