Kenneth DPRD DKI Asks Distamhut To Increase Tebet Eco Park Care After Falling Trees Overhaul Residents

Member of Commission D of the DKI Jakarta DPRD from the PDIP faction, Hardiyanto Kenneth, reviewed the treatment and facilities of Tebet Eco Park in South Jakarta. (Ist)

JAKARTA - Member of Commission D of the DKI Jakarta DPRD from the PDI-P (PDIP), Hardiyanto Kenneth, regretted that the incident of a visitor to Tebet Eco Park in South Jakarta was hit by a fallen tree while on recreation.

According to him, this will not happen if the Jakarta Provincial Parks and Forests Service (Distamhut) routinely maintains trees in a number of parks in Jakarta, especially at Tebet Eco Park, which has an area of 7.3 hectares.

"I ask the Jakarta Provincial Distamhut to pay more attention and carry out intensive maintenance at Tebet Eco Park. Both trees and facilities there," Kenneth said in his statement, Wednesday, May 29.

Visitors who were victims were a woman with the initials NA (28) from Jakarta Timu (Jaktim). After being hit by a tree on Friday, May 24, the victim was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital for treatment.

The fallen tree in Tebet Eco Park is known to have a trunk diameter of about 60 centimeters. It is located near the children's playground. When there was no strong wind, the tree collapsed allegedly due to age factors.

In addition to maintenance, the man who is familiarly called Bang Kent who accommodates complaints from visitors said that the condition of the facilities to cleanliness at Tebet Eco Park is not maintained. One of them, he said, is a water channel passing through the middle of Tebet Eco Park which causes an unpleasant odor, which disturbs the comfort of visitors.

"After I checked at the location, apparently the water channel at Tebet Eco Park accommodates the water from anywhere, both waste from residents' homes and public water channels, so it's natural that it smells, if you don't pay attention to it and at maintenance. There should be routine maintenance to clean the waterways there because this problem has been complained about in 2022, but there are still no improvements and settlements to this day," he explained.

In addition, Tebet Eco Park visitors also complained about facilities that had never been repaired, such as suspension bridges. This is quite difficult for visitors who have to go quite far. As well as some garden lights that have been damaged or not turned on.

"Visitors also complained that the suspension bridge facilities that have been repaired for a long time, but have not been completed, until now at that location I see that there are still chains and banners that are written as still in the maintenance process, as a result, people cannot use this suspension bridge facility and finally make visitors who want to cross have to go around quite a long way, I think this is quite difficult for visitors. Then I saw that there were also some garden lights that were turned off but they were not repaired, so if at night it looks a bit dim, in my opinion conditions like this are prone to the use of this garden function. with this condition being a concrete proof of the Provincial Government's inconsequence in managing and maintaining its assets, "said Kent.

In fact, he said, the revitalization of Tebet Eco Park in 2021 has cost Rp40 billion. However, in reality there have been no significant changes related to tree care or related facilities in the park.

On the one hand, the park should be maintained because it has received international awards such as Design of The Year at the President's Design Award 2023 Singapore, and the Gold Award at the Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards.

"Don't just intend to build it, but you can't maintain it and maintain it. If the method is like this, it's only natural that many of our parks are misappropriated and used inappropriately by irresponsible individuals, such as one example is the incident in Taman Tubagus Angke, West Jakarta which was misappropriated for prostitution activities, as a result of the DKI Provincial Government who lacks supervision in maintaining and maintaining their own assets. Tebet Eco Park is one of the parks that is iconic and the mainstay of the city of Jakarta, is one of the lungs of the city that carries ecological, social, educational and recreational concepts but in reality, far from fire, very minimal maintenance, "said Kent.

According to him, the Jakarta Provincial Government always acts when there has been an incident, which should be anticipated early, such as an example of a fallen tree incident that hit the community. So this proves that the Jakarta Provincial Government has neglected the safety of the people who use the park.

"Don't always have a new incident acting. As happened recently, what happened on Friday, the incident of a fallen tree hit a mother as a result of wanting to save her child, and I see that the tree has now been cut off, but the results of its work are not complete and the roots of the tree can still endanger visitors to Ecopark Park, I also see that there are no signs of danger clues installed around it. They should be able to anticipate early so that similar incidents don't happen again in the future, so basically there must be a thorough and serious evaluation and attention related to the management and maintenance of the park in Jakarta, then Distamhut must also carry out regular maintenance, whether treated every 3 months, or once every 6 months that is carried out on trees throughout the park and on the road, the work must be completed so that in the future no more adverse events will occur," said the Head of the Disaster Management Agency (Baguna) of the Jakarta PDIP DPD.

As is known, Tebet Eco Park used to be only known as a regular park and even barely managed so that residents were not interested in recreation in the park. Located in South Jakarta, the park, previously known as Taman Tebet or Taman Honda, has been revitalized by the DKI Jakarta City Parks and Forests Service (Distanhut) since 2021, and was inaugurated by Anies Baswedan as the Governor of DKI Jakarta at that time on April 23, 2022.