JAKARTA - The Bekasi Regency Government (Pemkab) has started repairing the Jatiwangi Bridge in Babakan Village, Jatiwangi Village, West Cikarang District, which was broken due to a landslide some time ago.
Head of the Water Resources, Highways, and Construction Development Office of Bekasi Regency Henri Lincoln stated that bridge repairs had begun using disaster emergency response funds after completing the stages of cleaning the location, including outreach to local residents.
"We are targeting this improvement to be completed in three weeks, so that the main road access can be reused immediately by the community," he said at the bridge site, Friday, March 14, which was confiscated by Antara.
He explained that the bridge segment had collapsed since March 3, 2025 after heavy rain caused landslides and damaged the bridge structure, thus cutting off main road access.
He hopes that the repair of this bridge will be able to restore main road access in the area, so that people's mobility can return to normal as usual.
"This effort is also part of a strategic step in increasing infrastructure resilience against natural disasters in the future," he said.
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In addition to repairing bridges, the local government has also returned to normalizing rivers that overflowed due to flooding in a number of areas.
"For bridges and other affected roads, we will carry out further data collection. Usually there is a rehabilitation and reconstruction team that will submit a budget proposal to the leadership, either through the 2026 APBD or an additional budget," he said.
Henri hopes that river normalization at a number of points will be able to reduce the risk of flooding while minimizing the impact caused on road and bridge infrastructure.
Local governments also continue to be committed to monitoring the progress of improvements and ensuring that the necessary rehabilitation budget can be realized as needed.
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