Having Been Investigated By The Acting Governor, The DKI Provincial Government Targets Repair Of Congested Culverts In South Jakarta To Be Completed 2 Weeks

A clogged water channel or culvert on Jalan Adityawarman and Jalan Tirtayasa, South Jakarta.

JAKARTA - Secretary of the DKI Jakarta Water Resources (SDA) Office, Hendri, said that his party was still widening the clogged water or culverts on Jalan Adityawarman and Jalan Tirtayasa, South Jakarta.

The implementation of this water channel had caused flooding in South Jakarta some time ago. After being investigated by the Acting Governor of DKI, Teguh Setyabudi, it turned out that the water channel was blocked by underground fiber cables.

"The narrowing of waterways or bottlenecks at that location has been dismantled to maximize the flow of water," Hendri told reporters, Thursday, November 14.

After being dismantled, the culverts will be rearranged. The SDA Office targets the repair of the waterways to be completed in two weeks.

"The channel arrangement in the area is targeted to be completed in two weeks," said Hendri.

Previously, the Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta, Teguh Setyabudi, checked the waterways along Jalan Adityawarman and Jalan Tirtayasa, South Jakarta. This area was flooded due to heavy rains a few days ago.

When he saw the condition of the water channel which was also being repaired, Teguh found a narrowing of the width of the water channel which was also part of the underground cable ducting.

This fiber optic cable located in the area of the arrangement of the integrated utility network (SJUT) is considered not to be neatly arranged. In fact, there is a narrowing of the channel from 2 meters wide and 1 meter long along the channel. Teguh assessed that this caused the canal to be clogged and caused flooding when it rained.

"We saw earlier, how the cable also caused the garbage to pile up so much. We saw that when it rained it was extraordinary, it would eventually spill again," said Teguh, Friday, November 8.

Teguh said that he would evaluate the arrangement of water channels in conjunction with SJUT to his subordinates and telecommunications network companies including PLN. According to him, the SJUT cable cannot be placed in an area with a water channel.

"We saw earlier, for example, a ditch, the contents were many cables, the contents of which were in the SJUT, right. Well, this might be our concern, yes, in the future how to manage it," explained Teguh.

"But we also can't just cut the cable, or the one in the SJUT in the ditch, because it might be fiber optic, yes, on the internet and so on. But of course we have to do it, say heating, but we must certainly also invite, say the operators of the transmission of the cable," he added.