474 Shophouses And Hundreds Of Houses Affected By Bali Floods, Government Promises Recovery Immediately

Officers carried out the process of searching for victims around the shophouse building which was destroyed due to flooding in the Jalan Sulawesi area, Denpasar, Bali, Thursday (11/9/2025). (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) emphasized that the central and regional governments are ready to work together to accelerate the recovery of the damage caused by the floods that hit a number of areas in Bali Province.

"All ministries have moved according to their duties with local governments at the district and city levels to accelerate all repair of damage to public facilities and residents' houses," said Head of BNPB, Suharyanto Friday, September 12.

According to him, regulated in Law (UU) 24/2007, BNPB acts as the coordinator across ministries and institutions in dealing with emergency response - recovery to ensure that everything goes well and quickly.

As stipulated, BNPB has coordinated with the Ministry of Social Affairs for the handling of refugees, public kitchens, and distribution of aid, and in this case the Minister of Social Affairs, Saifullah Yusuf, is scheduled to come directly to Bali today to ensure that basic community services can be fulfilled.

Then, for large-scale infrastructure improvements, such as damage to roads and bridges, it is the duty of the Ministry of Public Works (PU) with the support of BNPB which also involves TNI/Polri personnel.

Meanwhile, damaged schools will be handled by the Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education (Dikdasmen) and damage to worship facilities handled by the Ministry of Religion.

"So, indeed this is already regular in such a way, it can be seen together that everyone has come here, and everyone will help the community," he said.

The joint team of officers in the field are still collecting detailed numbers of damaged houses, roads, bridges and public facilities. However, the temporary data obtained is at least 474 units of kiosks - shophouses affected.

"For people's houses, to kiosks, the affected 474 shophouses need more coordination on how to complete them," he said.

Apart from that, his party considered that the flood incident in Bali this time was an important warning about the impact of climate change, so that preparedness for the dynamics of weather patterns, as well as resilience and sustainable spatial planning.

The wet hydrometeorological disaster occurred after Bali was hit by very heavy rain which was exacerbated by the disruption of rossby's equatorial waves more than 24 hours since Tuesday (9/10) morning.

Reported by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), at that time the rainfall that fell reached 385 millimeters or equivalent to the accumulation of rainfall a full month.

BNPB, on Thursday (11/9) night reported that 16 victims died, one person was missing, and as many as 562 residents fled to a number of evacuation points while utilizing posts and a number of public facilities, such as schools to village halls.

To support the acceleration of recovery and ensure the conditions of survivors in the evacuation, BNPB distributed logistical assistance and equipment in the form of 200 sheets of blankets, 200 mattresses, 300 food packages, 50 units of family tents, two units of refugee tents, one unit of rubber boats with engines, and three units of water pumps.