Acting Governor Of DKI Forms Earthquake-Resistant Infrastructure Assessment Task Force, Saidah Towers To Kalibata City Become Targets

Acting Governor Of DKI Heru Budi Hartono/PHOTO: Public Relations Of The DKI Provincial Government

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono formed an Integrated Task Force for Building and Non-Building Assessment for Earthquake Risk Reduction in DKI Jakarta Province.

Heru explained that this task force was formed as a step to mitigate badminton to reduce the severity of the earthquake disaster on building infrastructure and non-building in the capital city.

"With the establishment of an Integrated Building and Non-Building Assessment Task Force, it is hoped that we can jointly reduce the risk of earthquakes to ensure business continuity, minimize casualties, infrastructure losses, and disruption of community service activities," said Heru at DKI City Hall, Tuesday, May 30.

This integrated task force, Heru continued, not only carried out monitoring, but also provided an assessment of the disaster mitigation of high-rise buildings in Jakarta, ranging from building structures, disaster evacuation routes, fire and earthquake management facilities, rescue points (rescues), to emergency stairs in the building.

This assessment will later be integrated into a system called SIDUGATAMI (Earthquake Disaster Resilient Building System).

"The Head of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) said that there were several that would be checked and re-examined, including the Jakarta City Hall building. I asked to immediately check the building so that there would be no disasters that would harm the community," he explained.

After the DKI Jakarta City Hall building, the DKI Provincial Government has mapped a number of buildings that are the targets of the Integrated Building and Non-Building Assessment Task Force assessment. One of them is the Saidah tower on Jalan MT Haryono which has been uninhabited for a long time.

"Secondly, we will check the Saidah tower in South Jakarta. We have coordinated with the building management," said Head of the DKI Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Isnawa Adji.

Isnawa said that the results of the examination will be submitted to the building owner in the form of recommendations for things that need to be considered and carried out in the future. For the next stage, inspections will be carried out twice a month by targeting public facilities and public facilities.

"We plan to also check the Kalibata City Apartment, Koja Hospital, and markets. If it is not a building, we could check the reservoir for fear of cracks. Then the market may have an old structure. So, it's not limited to a multilevel building. Whatever we will do monitoring," added Isnawa.

The integrated task force of 122 people consists of a combination of elements of pentahelix, namely the central government which includes the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), and elements of the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government including BPBD, the Fire and Rescue Service (Disgulkarmat), and the Cipta Karya, Spatial Planning and Land Service (DKCTRP).

Then, community organizations (Disaster Risk Reduction Forum and Jakarta Rescue), DKI Jakarta Chamber of Commerce and Industry, elements of Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management (APAD) Indonesia, and Tarunmanagara University.