Geological Disaster Center Reveals Causes Of Bocimi Toll Landslides

Bogor-Ciawi-Sukabumi (Bocimi) Toll Road (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) revealed that the location of the landslide that occurred on the Bocimi KM 64 Toll Road was included in the vulnerability zone of medium ground motion marked in yellow on the ground movement map.

"Here it can be interpreted that (location) has an intermediate level of vulnerability for ground movement," said Head of the Work Team of the PVMBG Land Movement Oktory Prambada when contacted, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, April 4. October explained that the ground movement could occur mainly in areas bordering river valleys, gated road cliffs or if the slopes were disrupted. The old soil movement can be reactivated mainly due to high rainfall., geological and geological structures, weathering, soil or rocks, geohidrology, and land use procedures.

As for the trigger for ground movement, it can be in the form of vibrations or earthquakes, rainfall, human activity, and water infiltration into the slopes. Longsor is thought to have occurred due to water erosion due to heavy rainfall around the location," said Oktory. On April 3, 2024, at around 20.00 WIB, landslides or landslides occurred on the Bocimi Toll Road (Bogor, Cianjur, and Sukabumi) KM 64-600 A precisely on the Parungkuda Toll Road towards Sukabumi, Ciambar District, Sukabumi Regency, West Java. The paid road, which has not even been inaugurated for a year, caused one MPV car containing two passengers to fall into an avalanche hole.

The Sukabumi Police confirmed that there were no fatalities in the incident, but one passenger was injured. In addition, there was one truck and one MPV who had a single accident due to shock and tried to avoid going to the right, then hit the median of the road. PT Trans Jabar Tol stated that it was still identifying the impact of landslides on other lanes and taking action so that landslides could be repaired and reused immediately.