Alert! BPBD Warns Fish Market Sluice Gate To Increase Alert 2

Illustration of water level indicator at the Water Gate Monitoring Post. (ANTARA/Ricky Prayoga)

JAKARTA - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of DKI Jakarta Province reported that the water level at the Fish Market Monitoring Post has increased. Currently, the post in Penjaringan, North Jakarta is declared Alert 2.

It was observed that the water level at the Fish Market Gate reached 229 cm on Saturday at 06.00 WIB.

"Anticipate areas that may be affected: Kamal Muara, Kapuk Muara, Penjaringan, Pluit, Ancol, Kamal, Marunda, Cilincing, and Kalibaru," BPBD wrote on its official Twitter account @BPBDJakarta in Jakarta, Sunday, March 26.

The DKI BPBD information is also sourced from a report from the DKI Jakarta Provincial Water Resources Service.

The efforts made by the DKI Jakarta BPBD, apart from disseminating information, also informed the local sub-district/lurah about the status of two alerts at the Fish Market Watergate.

Based on the chronology, the water level (TMA) of the Fish Market Gate has been on standby since 00.00 WIB because the height reached 205 cm, then three hours later the TMA rose 15 cm to 220 cm, and to 229 cm at 06.00 WIB.

Meanwhile, the weather forecast for ports in mainland Jakarta and the Thousand Islands on Saturday is predominantly cloudy.

BMKG estimates that the air temperature at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta will be around 27-30 degrees Celsius and humidity of 65-85 percent with a visibility of five kilometers.

Likewise at Marunda Port and Kalibaru Port in Cilincing, Sunda Kelapa Port, Nizam Zachman Muara Baru Ocean Fishing Port, and Kaliadem Muara Angke Port in Penjaringan.

The height of the sea waves is between 0.1-0.5 meters and the maximum tide is predicted to occur at 09.00 WIB where the height reaches 0.9 meters.

Meanwhile in the waters of the western part of the Java Sea, light rain is forecast and the weather in Jakarta Bay is cloudy with winds blowing from south to southwest between 4-10 knots.

The wind in the northern part of the West Java waters generally blows from the Southwest to the Northwest with wind speeds ranging from six to 15 knots. Meanwhile, the wave height in the waters of the West Java Sea has the potential to be between 0.1-0.5 meters.

Meanwhile, the estimated wave height in the waters of the Thousand Islands is between 0.5-1.25 meters.