Residents Worried About The Burap Of Kalibaru Broken: It Could Be Worse Than The Situ Gintung Incident

Water bursts from below Turap Kalibaru, Kramat Jati, East Jakarta/ Photo: Rizky Sulistio/ VOI

The burst of water suddenly came out of the underground surface on Jalan Rahayu, to be precise on the side of Kalibaru, RT 01/01, Kampung Tengah Village, Kramat Jati District, East Jakarta, Friday,.

This condition was caused by damage under the sheet of the sheet pile or embankment on the left side of Kalibaru.

"The water from below rises. I mean, if he wants to fix it, he has to repair everything there to make the horses (pondation) strong," Ricard told VOI at the location, Friday, December 1.

The water that was seen sprinkling from under the road made local residents worried. Residents are afraid that one day the embankment whose foundation is damaged will collapse and collapse.

"Anyway, the project is here when it happens, then they start moving," he said.

Meanwhile, Dusri, another resident, said that the impact of the rembes of the Kalibaru river flow resulted in flooding in residential areas.

The height of the flood water discharge also varies, because the soil field in that location has high and low parts.

"In residents' houses, it is at least one meter high because they are targeting the lowest land. Now, floods enter if the road here is small, the deepest is in the RT 01 part," he said.

Dusri revealed that flooding in the area has often occurred since 30 years ago. Because he assessed that the process of repairing the sheet pile, which had started since 2015, had never been a solution.

However, he hopes that the current repair work, which has begun around September 2023 by the Water Resources Service, can be the right solution.

"The flood has been around for about 30 years and has started to be repaired but I don't know it ended up overflowing. Often it is repaired, but it is fixed it is patchy and now it is just starting to be permanent," he added.

Dusri hopes that the repair of the sheet pile can be completed quickly. Because he is worried that the rainy season will come which can also allow the water discharge in the Kalibaru flow to become high and the pressure of heavy water will then make the embankment vulnerable to breaking into people's homes.

"If this is not rushed, it will be repaired more severely than Situ Gintung (Ciputat). If Situ Gintung breaks finally, it will run out because of the reservoir. So if this breaks there is no long limit," he complained.

When confirmed, the Head of the East Jakarta Water Resources (SDA) Sub-dept., Wawan Kurniawan said that the Kalibaru repair project was under the authority of the DKI Jakarta Natural Resources Service.

"(The embankment repair project is handled) DKI Jakarta SDA Service," he briefly told VOI, Friday, December 1.