JAKARTA - The aftershocks caused a number of points in the West Jakarta area to be flooded again on Monday night.
A number of points include Jalan Arjuna Utara (direction to Kebon Jeruk), around Rawa Buaya Station, Cengkareng, then Patra, Kebon Jeruk (backward of Esa Unggul Campus), then Jalan Duri Kepa Raya, Kebon Jeruk, then Jalan Kamal Raya, Gang Bakti Mulya, Cengkareng and several other points.
In a number of viral videos uploaded by the Instagram account @warga.jakbar, floods at these points even exceed the knee height of adults.
Floods at these points had receded on Monday afternoon, but again stagnated on Monday night due to heavy rains that had flushed since Monday afternoon.
Previously, the West Jakarta Water Resources Sub-dept. (SDA Sub-Department) optimized the use of pumps to deal with flooding.
Head of West Jakarta SDA Sub-dept. Purwanti Suryandari said that his party had operated 152 stationary pump units in 48 pump houses, 70 mobile pump units and 60 floating pump units since Sunday (6/7) afternoon.
"Yesterday it was heavy rain evenly throughout Jakarta. That's why we are on standby for pump operations. We spread it at flood points in the West Jakarta area," Purwanti said when contacted by ANTARA in Jakarta.
According to Purwanti, the location of the West Jakarta area closer to North Jakarta has caused further flood management to be carried out.
"The size of the area also affects, the inundation in West Jakarta is also sent from other areas. West Jakarta is a bit north, so from the south it has receded, all of them fled to the west," said Purwanti.
In addition, the high upstream water level has caused a number of times in West Jakarta to be at alert one for hours, so handling takes a long time.
"It's also high upstream. Angke is on standby 1, how many hours is the angke river. Then also Cengkareng Draine is also on standby 1. Add a high tide, right," said Purwanti.
Purwanti emphasized that hundreds of pumps are ready to operate to anticipate aftershocks in the West Jakarta area.
"If our pumps are scattered throughout the West Jakarta area, yes and ready to operate," added Purwanti.
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