BNPB Strives For 3 Days TMC To Reduce Pollution

Illustration. TNI Air Base Roesmin Nurjadin carried out a TMC operation in the Riau sky.. Between/HO-Humas Air Base Roesmin Nurjadin.

JAKARTA - The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) seeks three days of weather modification technology (TMC) to rinse pollution.

Head of the BNPB Disaster Information and Communication Data Center Abdul Muhari in Disaster Briefing said TMC was carried out on August 19-21.

"There is a certain phase where at least the concentration of the clouds is 30 percent, enough to make artificial rain. BNPB together with BMKG, BRIN, and TNI-Polri, we have started doing TMC," Abdul said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, August 21.

The implementation of TMC to rinse air pollution is not only in the city of Jakarta, but also in Bandung, Semarang and several other cities. BNPB hopes that in the next 2-3 days there will be clouds that will allow for the procedure.

Abdul explained that the current level of pollution is more or less the same during the previous rainy season. Especially when the COVID-19 pandemic is declared over.

However, at the beginning of the year there was not too much pollution, because it was overflowed by rain. The frequency of rain makes dust particles and pollutants always rinse.

TMC is carried out as a response step in the emergency phase. However, Abdul ensured that there was a long-term policy that would be implemented to deal with poor air quality.

"Currently we will focus first on handling the short term that we can do. So that at least until this dry season, yes even if not every day at least 2-3 times a week the blasphemy can go down to return to flucting," he said.