JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung ensures that the DKI Provincial Government will not limit the budget for the implementation of the Weather Modification Operation (OMC) amid the threat of extreme weather and flooding that hit the capital again on Sunday, January 18.
Pramono said the OMC budget had been prepared for a full month's worth. In fact, the DKI Provincial Government has shifted Unforeseen Spending (BTT) to ensure that the operation runs optimally.
"For the OMC budget, so we have budgeted for this month. In fact, frankly, there is a Pegeseran BTT (Unforeseen Expenses)," said Pramono at Aryaduta Menteng, Central Jakarta, Monday, January 19.
Pramono emphasized that the use of BTT was possible because the budget had been included in the DKI Jakarta Regional Budget. According to Pramono, the current OMC budget needs are considered sufficient and are not limited to only a few flights as before.
"It can (shift the budget from BTT). It is, because it has entered the APBD. That's enough. Because the budget is not like it used to be. In the past, the budget was only for weather modification at most 3-5 times. This will be taken even if it's a month," he said.
In addition, Pramono revealed that the flood that hit dozens of RTs in Jakarta on Sunday, January 18 was triggered by very extreme rainfall. In fact, the DKI Provincial Government has been carrying out OMC since January 13.
Pramono said the rainfall recorded in North Jakarta reached a figure he had never encountered during his tenure as governor over the past year. From the eight rain gauges in the area, the average rainfall was above 200 millimeters.
"In North Jakarta there are eight points to calculate the rainfall, an average of 260. There are even those up to 280 and that is the highest I have ever known during my tenure as Governor of Jakarta," he said.
He explained that on Sunday, OMC was carried out up to three flights. The decision was made after seeing the condition of the Jakarta atmosphere which had been very dense since noon.
According to Pramono, the implementation of weather modification is currently based on scientific studies. He said the results were visible from the weather conditions in Jakarta which returned to being sunny after the operation was carried out.
"Yesterday, Sunday, there were three flights. It just so happened that I ordered it directly, because Jakarta was already very crowded when it was three o'clock in the afternoon, two o'clock it was already very crowded," said Pramono.
He explained that the OMC was carried out at the weekend as a response to the atmospheric conditions which were considered potentially triggering heavy rain. However, the concentration of rain at that time actually gathered in the North Jakarta area.
"If it is not done, (the impact of flooding) is more than that. It's just that, because it is done and usually when you do it, the concentration is from top to bottom. Well yesterday, all the rainfall accumulated in North Jakarta. 80 percent of the rain was North Jakarta," he added.
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