AGAM - A total of four jorongs in Nagari or Pagadih Village, Palupuh District, Agam Regency, West Sumatra are still isolated by the impact of landslide material stockpiling the provincial road connecting the district to Limapuluh Kota Regency.
Agam Syafril DPRD members said the four isolated jorongs were Jorong Pagadih Mudiak, Tigo Kampung, Pagadih Hilia and Banio Baririk.
"There are around 400 heads of families with a population of about 1,000 people in the four jorongs," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 10.
He said the four jorongs were isolated due to seven landslide material points covering the road and the provincial road was flooded after heavy rains hit the area at the end of November 2025.
The condition of seven landslides and the body of the road is quite large with a length of about 50-100 meters and a height of two to four meters, so that traffic access is cut off.
With this condition, two-wheeled vehicles can only reach the post in Pagadih Mudiak, with slippery conditions and quite difficult for motorists.
"Drivers must be careful passing through the area. For logistics distribution in Jorong Tigo Kampung, Pagadih Hilia and Banio Baririk are carried by the community with a distance of about two to four kilometers," he said.
Previously there were 30 landslide points on the provincial road from Nagari Pasia Laweh, Palupuh District to the border with Limapuluh Kota Regency.
To clean up the material, the Agam Regency Government deployed three heavy equipment, so that the remaining seven points had not been cleaned.
But due to the large piles of landslides and falling rainfall, the landslide material left above the road slid back down and covered the road.
Currently, four-wheeled vehicles have not been able to reach the Nagari Pagadih emergency response post and the Nagari Pagadih Mayor's Office and four jorongs are still isolated.
The nagari government has written to the local government, as well as the provincial government so that landslide material is immediately cleaned, access to transportation back to normal and four jorongs are not isolated.
"The electricity and internet networks are already on in Pagadih. In Aia Kujang, Nagari Nan Tujuh, Palupuh District, 34 families are also isolated, about 100 people," he said.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Agam Ofrizon Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency added that in Nagari Pagadih, Palupuh District, three units of heavy equipment had been deployed. However, the rainfall conditions are high, so the cleaning of materials is constrained.
The plan is to deploy two more units of heavy equipment to clean up landslide material.
"We are looking for heavy equipment that will be shifted to Pagadih, Palupuh District," he said.
He targets the cleaning of materials in Pagadih, Palupuh District to be completed in the next three days, so that traffic flow returns to normal and the area is no longer isolated.
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