DKI Jakarta Increases Preparedness To Face Floods

The South Jakarta City Government is dredging mud to prevent flooding in the Patra area, Menteng Dalam Village, Tebet District, Jakarta, Monday (27/10/2025). BETWEEN/HO-Kominfotik South Jakarta/aa.

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government is increasing preparedness to deal with rainy seasons that have the potential to cause flooding by alerting pumps, dredging water bodies to optimizing drainage and reservoir systems.

"We are not waiting for the flood to arrive," said the Head of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Isnawa Adji, as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, October 28.

Since the beginning of last October, he said, all regional apparatus have been moving to prepare flood control facilities and infrastructure.

According to him, through synergies across regional apparatus, various anticipatory and mitigation measures are continuously carried out to maintain the safety and comfort of Jakarta residents.

Isnawa said that mitigation efforts were carried out thoroughly, starting from alerting pumps, dredging water bodies, to optimizing drainage and reservoir systems.

On the other hand, the DKI Jakarta BPBD strengthens the early warning system and ensures that weather information and water level can be accessed by the public through the bpbd.jakarta.go.id website, social media @BPBDJakarta and the JAKI application.

Preparedness is a shared responsibility. The government prepares infrastructure and systems, while the community needs to play an active role in maintaining environmental cleanliness.

"With this synergy, we create a strong Jakarta against the rainy season," said Isnawa.

Based on data from the DKI Jakarta Provincial Water Resources (SDA) Office as of October 17, 2025, there are 560 permanent pump units (stationary) in 191 locations and 627 portable (mobile) pump units on standby in five administrative cities.

Head of the DKI Jakarta SDA Service, Ika Agustin Ningrum, said that to carry out rapid monitoring and handling of inundation as many as 3,908 blue troop personnel were alerted in the field.

He revealed that other efforts made were dredging reservoirs, ponds, reservoirs and rivers and connecting channels (PHB) to increase their capacity and facilitate water flow.

The total dredging volume until mid-October reached 704,523 cubic meters (m3) spread over 1,788 points throughout Jakarta.

The SDA Service also deployed 258 excavator units and 449 "dump trucks" units to speed up the dredging and transportation of sedimentation.

In addition to technical efforts, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has also implemented "Nature-Based Solutions" (NBS) or a natural-based approach in the construction of reservoirs and reservoirs to strengthen the ecological function of water control.