The Remaining Two Months, The Construction Of Infiltration Wells In DKI This Year Is Still 60 Percent

Resapan wells / Jakarta.go.id

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has a target of constructing 5,000 vertical drainage wells for flood control by the end of 2020. However, two months to the end of December, the construction of infiltration wells still reaches 60 percent of the target.

"For this year, our target is around 5,000 points. Now, the estimate is around 3,000 and we are going on," said Head of DKI Water Resources (SDA), Juaini Yusuf when contacted, Wednesday, November 11.

In fact, last September, Juaini said the target of making absorption wells by the end of this year was 300 thousand. However, the DKI Provincial Government has reduced the target of making infiltration wells to 5,000 by December 2020. "Later, in early January we will continue," he said.

Juaini revealed the reason for the difficulty of constructing massive infiltration wells. He said, there were still not many vendors who wanted to work on this project.

"There are two new vendor catalogs, here. It is lacking. The plan is that we will open new vendors that can do more," said Juaini.

He is targeting, there will be more vendors in early 2021. In addition, there will be grant cooperation with the community. Because, at this time, DKI Pemprob was only able to make infiltration wells in government-owned assets.

"With the community, later we will give the goods. They will do the work each in the yard that is sufficient. The plan, we also urge the public to propose if they really want to take part in making vertical drainage," he said.

For information, the construction of infiltration wells is included in one of the orders of the Governor of DKI Jakarta Anies Baswedan in the Governor's Instruction Number 52 of 2020 concerning the Acceleration of Improving Flood Control Systems in the Era of Climate Change.

"We continue to build infiltration wells. This year, the target is around 300 thousand in locations that are considered prone to inundation, to be deployed in 5 regions (administrative cities)," said Juaini on Wednesday, September 23.

In fact, the continuation of the construction of infiltration wells has actually been planned since the beginning of this year. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government must divert the flood management budget for handling COVID-19 and its economic impact.

Meanwhile, the locations for making absorption wells are mostly in East Jakarta and South Jakarta. Meanwhile, the locations of infiltration wells in North Jakarta will not be made in large quantities.

"For the location, we see that the land is still there and there is also no sea water coming in. Because, if in North (Jakarta), we only dig 1 meter, the water has entered. There's no way we can make it there," Juaini explained.