Central Jakarta Park And Forest Sub-Department Budgeted A Tree Root Health Detection Tool

A flamboyant tree strikes a car and dent in the front on Jalan Purworejo, Menteng, Central Jakarta (Photo: ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Central Jakarta City Parks and Forestry Office will budget for the procurement of a tree root health check tool. This is to ensure the age of the tree roots from porous.

"For now, the agency only has to check the medical devices for tree trunks. So it has not reached the root. So we have also discussed it so that there is a budget allocation that can detect it to the root, it is invisible so it is really necessary," said the Head of the Sub-dept. Central Jakarta City Parks and Forests, Mila Ananda reported by Antara, Thursday, February 4.

Mila said that the fall of the two trees in the last two days happened because his party did not know that the roots of the large tree were porous.

Most recently, a fallen tree even hit a car with license plate number B 355 RFT on Jalan Purworejo, Menteng on Thursday afternoon at 12.40 WIB. The car has dents on the front. Luckily, both the driver and passenger survived.

The Parks Department, continued Mila, had indeed checked the tree. However, due to limited equipment owned by the agency, it was decided not to cut down.

"We can't just play cutting if the roots are still good," said Mila.

Mila hopes that the budget to buy a root checking tool can be realized soon so that it can prevent falling trees.

"We hope that the procurement of tools to detect to the root can be approved. So the anticipation is better," Mila concluded.