Central Java Provincial Government Forms For Road Monitoring Teams, Their Tasks Are Traveling Against Damage Due To Floods

Illustration. Improvement of the Trans Sumatra Toll Road KM 310, OKI, South Sumatra, December 2021. (Between-Nova W)

JAKARTA - The Central Java (Central Java) Provincial Government has alerted a monitoring team to anticipate road damage due to natural disasters such as floods and landslides.

Head of the Public Works Office of Highways and Cipta Karya (DPUBMCK) of Central Java Province, Hanung Triyono, said the monitoring team was formed so that damaged roads could be immediately estimated.

"We have anticipated various possible damage to provincial roads during the rainy season due to the high intensity of rain that has fallen in recent areas in several areas, one of which is deploying a road monitoring team," he said in Semarang, Central Java, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, October 19.

He explained that the monitoring was carried out by officers in their respective working areas. Mainly on provincial-level roads that are prone to landslides or prone to landslides during the rainy or flood season.

"In the field, the work has been well organized, and the community groups have also been running, just need to increase their vigilance," he said.

Hanung explained that the monitoring team officers toured the streets under the authority of the Central Java Provincial Government, as well as alerting various necessary tools, especially heavy equipment.

According to him, the readiness of the heavy equipment aims to deal with it if it is needed at any time when a natural disaster occurs.

"Prepared at each hall, we have disaster-prone points that are watched out for as well as halls that have roads where disasters often occur," he said.

In the rainy season like now, Hanung continued, the potential for natural disasters that could damage provincial roads is floods and landslides.

The potential disaster is currently a form of anticipation if at any time it damages provincial roads.