Every Year, The New Muara Beach Security Embankment In Jakarta Is High 20 Cm Anticipating Sea Water Inevitably

Project workers in the Muara Baru area set the height of the coastal safety embankment (shore embankment) on the land of PT Pelindo (Persero) to increase by 20 centimeters (cm), Thursday (5/10/2023). ANTARA/Abdu Faisal

JAKARTA - Workers for the coastal safety embankment project on the land of PT Pelindo (Persero) Muara Baru, RW17 Penjaringan, North Jakarta set the height up to 20 cm which is carried out regularly every two years.

According to the supervisor of the Muara Baru embankment building project, M Djahruddin, the adjustment of the embankment height is carried out regularly every two years, so that sea water does not overflow upwards when high tides are high.

"If you increase it every two years. Every two years it is increased by approximately 20 cm," said Djahruddin when met by reporters in North Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Thursday, October 5.

According to Djahruddin, the embankment worker has worked for about a month. The initial height of the embankment is between three and four meters.

Information reviewed from the Jakarta One application, the length of the Muara Baru embankment in Penjaringan Village, North Jakarta reached 3,492 meters. The embankment stretches from Jalan Kakap (Muara Baru) to Jalan Pasar Ikan (Outer Batang).

The structure of the compiler material in the form of a corrugated wall (Corrugate Concrete Sheet Pile/CCSP) added parapet.

North Jakarta Mayor Ali Maulana Hakim said the Muara Baru embankment was in the PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Persero) area.

"The embankment is in the land where the Pelindo area enters," said Ali.

Ali confirmed that the coastal embankment was part of the National Capital Integrated Coasted Development (NCICD) Phase A project carried out by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government through the Water Resources Service (SDA).

However, the construction of embankments in North Jakarta has not yet led to the giant sea wall wall.

"Actually, Giant Sea Wall, we are still not there. But the construction of this embankment is only a little more in the Angke area, then there is more at the end of Cilincing there, so that it can become 100 percent," said Ali.

The total length of the NCICD Phase A embankment where the DKI Provincial Government took part in building it, reaches about 11 kilometers. The construction includes four coastal embankment clusters in the Muara Angke area, Mutiara Beach, Sunda Kelapa, and Blencong River.

The project, which is one of the steps to deal with land subsidence in the capital, was launched by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Natural Resources Office for three years, from 2023-2025, with a budget of IDR 595 billion.