JAKARTA - Head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Dwikorita Karnawati is committed to perfecting early warning information on extreme weather such as heavy rain or strong winds so that it is not underestimated by the community or local government.
Dwikorita said that his party ensured that the extreme weather early warning information they distributed started from three hours, up to six days before the incident arrived and was received by the public.
"However, the problem is how moderate rain is, what kind of heavy rain they don't know, so they also don't know how to respond. That's what we will perfect because sometimes early warnings are underestimated," he said in a working meeting with members of Commission V of the DPR discussing the infrastructure preparation and transportation for Eid Al-Fitr 2025 homecoming which was broadcast online in Jakarta, Tuesday, March 11, was confiscated by Antara.
He ensured that for this condition, all weather information service schemes would be changed or improved starting during this Eid holiday period.
The former Chancellor of Gadjah Mada University explained that the increase was intended if previously the weather forecast report was given once a day, now at least twice a day using all BMKG social media channels.
"We distribute complete SMS blasts, radio via RRI, Elsinta. Also included information, such as the characteristic of moderate rain, the body will wet the kuyub, and the heavy rain will wet the kuyub and also the disturbed view will be difficult to see in the future," he said.
This was considered important by the participants of the working meeting as a mitigation of the vulnerability of wet hydromterological disasters considering that the BMKG detected at least up to the third basis or on March 20-26 the potential for heavy rain and moderately in West Java, South Sumatra, Bengkulu, Bangka Belitung, Central Java, East Java.
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Meanwhile, based on the presentation of the Minister of Transportation in the working meeting, it is known that the number of travelers for this year's Eid holiday period is predicted to increase compared to the previous year, which was 146.48 million people or around 52 percent of the total population of Indonesia.
The movement on the island of Java is estimated to be the largest at the peak of the homecoming flow which will take place from March 21 and backflow on April 11, 2025.
"On the other hand, we hope that other local governments will also respond quickly to the early warning we provide, as did the Jakarta Government, which immediately carried out weather modifications, there was a response, that's the point," said Dwikorita.
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