Susun Kebijakan Cegah Tanah Bergerak, PVMBG Teliti Kawasan Singajaya Garut

Illustration of landslide material due to moving soil. (Pixabay)

The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) conducted research on ground conditions in Singajaya District, Garut Regency, West Java to determine the level of potential landslides and moving soil as a disaster mitigation effort in the area.

"The team from PVMBG to check the condition of the land in Singajaya is prone to ground movement or something, it is currently being investigated first," said Head of the Garut Regency Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Satria Budi in Garut, West Java, Wednesday 9 November.

He said officers from PVMBG checked every contour of land, conditions of houses, including places such as empang conditions and others which were considered to have the potential for land to move in Pancasura and Sukawangi villages, Singajaya sub-districts.

"So all the locations of the soil there are checked, including the condition of the balloon, whether it is above (high data) is also checked to ensure the condition is dangerous or what," he said, quoted by Antara.

He conveyed that the results of research in the area could not be known. Officers from PVMBG are still conducting studies to decide which areas have the potential for landslide hazards.

The results of the PVMBG research, he said, will be the basis for the Garut Regency Government in determining policies to prohibit building houses and also relocating residents' houses in landslide hazard areas or moving land.

"In determining the relocation policy, there must be a basis, namely there are recommendations related to regional conditions there," he said.

PVMBG Land Mapping and Modeling Sub-Coordinator Yohani Kristiawan added that the research was to ensure that in Singajaya District there was a potential for landslides and moving ground.

In particular, he continued, the area that was previously hit by a landslide was to be examined and analyzed for its condition until the results would finally be submitted to the Garut Regency Government.

The results of an interim study, he said, were one of the factors due to the large number of soft rocks, then triggered by rain.

"Geological factors and a lot of soft rocks, landslides were also triggered by quite high rainfall," he said.