Diperparah Jebolnya Tanggul, Banjir Di Demak Meluas Hingga 6 Kecamatan

Demak Regent Eisti'anah inspected the flood location in Kalianyar Village, Wonosalam District, Demak Regency, Central Java, Wednesday (7/2/2024). (ANTARA/Akhmad Nazaruddin Lathif)

JATENG - Floods in Demak Regency, Central Java (Central Java), are exacerbated by river water runoff due to the breakdown of the embankment. The impact of the flood has spread from four to six sub-districts.

"The six sub-districts are Karangawen, Kebonagung, Wonosalam, Karangtengah, Gajah, and Dempet sub-districts," said Demak Regent Eisti'anah while visiting the flood location in Kalianyar Village, Wonosalam District, Demak, Wednesday, February 7, confiscated by Antara.

He revealed that the flooding that occurred in Demak Regency depended on weather conditions in the upper area, considering that this flood was sent from the upper area.

When the weather in the upper area is quite friendly, the flooding that occurs in Demak Regency will also gradually recede.

Meanwhile, the number of people affected by the flood, he said, temporarily reached 15,787 people.

"The BPBD team together with volunteers are also preparing to evacuate residents to safe areas, if they really need evacuation. We are also still conducting community needs assessments through village heads and sub-district heads to record their citizens so that they can be assisted with logistics," he said.

The daily food needs, he said, were adjusted to their respective areas, a public kitchen could be prepared in a nearby location with floods or centered by BPBD, so that later the food needs would be distributed according to meal hours.

Acting Head of the Demak Regency Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), M. Agus Nugroho Luhur P added, initially there were four sub-districts, namely Karangawen, Kebonagung, Wonosalam, Karangtengah sub-districts. Then there are additional Karanganyar and Dempet sub-districts.

Meanwhile, the number of affected villages, he said, was temporarily 15 villages spread across six sub-districts.

Floods that occurred in Demak Regency, some were caused by broken embankments and river water that overflowed, following water sent from the upper area.

The river embankments that collapsed due to heavy rains in the upstream area so that the water debit increased, namely the right and left embankments of the Tuntang River in Rejosari Village, Karangawen District. Then the right embankment of the Cabean River in Ngemplik Hamlet, Sidorejo Village, as well as the Tuntang River embankment in Pilangwetan Village, Kebonagung District, and the right embankment of the Tuntang River in Kalianyar and Tlogodowo Villages, Wonosam District.

Floods in Kalianyar Village caused local village road access to be inundated and several residents' houses were also flooded, so some were forced to flee in mosques and prayer rooms.