Lubuk Basung Access To Bukittinggi Returns To Normal After Disaster

JAKARTA - The road connecting Lubuk Basung District, Agam Regency, West Sumatra to Bukittinggi City returned to normal after materials at several points in Kelok 44 had been cleared after the disaster.

Head of the Agam Ofrizon Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency said that the provincial road connecting Lubuk Basung to Bukittinggi can be passed by two-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles on Thursday (4/12) afternoon.

"Previously, the Kelok 10 road was piled up by the Kelok 8 road. After cleaning it, it was possible to pass to Bukittinggi via Panta to Ngarai Sianok," he said as quoted by ANTARA.

He said the road to the province of Sicincin Padang Pariaman to Toboh, Malalak District, Agam was open and vehicles could pass.

Lubuk Basung traffic flows to Bukittinggi via Sungai Landia, Ampek Koto sub-district can not be passed, because the road is piled up and there are many landslide points.

Currently, heavy equipment from the Agam Public Works and Spatial Planning Office is the Combat Engineer Battalion. The Maninjau road to the Batang River cannot be passed by vehicles due to piled roads and broken bridges in the Batang River.

"The road can only be passed from Muko-Muko through Tanjung Sani, Tanjung Raya District," he said.

Agam Regency Government is also opening the road for Koto Alam to Subarang Aia, Palembayan District.

Heavy equipment is working to pave the road and hopes that it can be passed soon so that transportation access runs smoothly in distributing logistics to affected residents.

Palembayan Street to Matur, also cannot be passed after the road access is piled up at two points.

For Palembayan to Tulang Gajak, Toboh to Malalak and others are still buried by landslide material.

"There are five heavy equipment that were deployed to clean up landslide materials originating from the Agam Regency Government, Bukittinggi City Government, West Sumatra Provincial Government," he said.

Agam Regency Government still lacks heavy equipment to clean up materials that hoard road bodies and include looking for victims who lost 85 people

For this reason, he hopes that people who have heavy equipment and trucks will help clean up landslide materials, so that isolated areas can be accessed in logistics distribution.

"At least we still lack 10 units of excavator heavy equipment, five loaders, and 10 trucks," he said.