Crowded Gotong Royong Handi The Remaining Floods In Semarang

Officers helped deal with the mud left over from the flood in the Dinar Indah Housing area, Meteseh, Semarang City, Saturday, January 7. (Photo via ANTARA/Semarang City Government)

The flood that had hit Semarang due to heavy rains on Friday, January 6, is now starting to recede. Currently, joint officers are working together to clean up the remaining mud and dirt due to the flood.

Sub-Coordinator of the Drainage Maintenance Operations of the Semarang City Public Works Office, Hisyam Ashari, in Semarang, Saturday, said that the cleaning used water tankers to spray mud deposited in residents' homes after the flood.

In addition to cleaning up areas from the remaining floods, the Semarang City Government together with relevant stakeholders also repaired the broken Babon River embankment and then triggered flooding.

The Semarang City Government noted that there was a broken embankment in the Babon River with a height of 1.4 meters along 20 meters.

"The emergency embankment uses sandbags, along with the TNI, Polri and the Sungai Basin Center," said Hisyam, as quoted by Antara, Saturday, January 7.

The cleaning is carried out in the Dinar Indah Housing area. In addition, cleaning is also carried out by flood points in the Rowosari District area.

Joint officers also helped clean a house in Block H P4A Housing, Pudak Payung Village, Banyumanik, Semarang City, which was hit by a landslide.

Heavy rains that flushed the Semarang area and its surroundings on Friday, January 6, caused flooding and landslides at several points.

In the natural disaster, three people were reported to have died. The victims died, namely two people, each due to floods in the Meteseh and Rowosari areas, and one victim died from landslides in Pudakpayung.