Ahead Of The Rainy Season, PDIP Party: Hopefully It Won't Rain Heavily In Jakarta

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JAKARTA - Member of the PDIP Party faction of the DKI Regional Representative Council (DPRD) Ida Mahmudah hopes that it will not rain heavily in Jakarta during the rainy season which will arrive some time in the future. Ida also hopes that Jakarta will not accept water shipments from upstream.

"Hopefully God will not send heavy rain in Jakarta and no water will be sent from Bogor. Hopefully, we will just pray", Ida told reporters, Tuesday, September 14.

Ida put this hope because she saw that the DKI Provincial Government had made efforts to backfill, starting from rivers, reservoirs, to ditches or sewers in densely populated residential areas.

"There are a lot of sewers that are clogged during the dry season. Yesterday I asked the Regional Secretary to immediately carry out dredging by the Natural Resources Service", said Ida.

"Thank God, I checked in several areas, they have started draining or repairing sewers that have been clogged all this time", she continued.

Previously, Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ahmad Riza Patria, said that the DKI Provincial Government continued to carry out flood prevention efforts by dredging. In fact, the dredging intensity is doubled.

"Dredging continues to be increased even in two shifts, eight hours each. Later it will be arranged in places that do not disturb residents", said Riza.

However, Riza admitted that the current flood control efforts in Jakarta could not directly prevent the capital city from being inundated by floods. After all, the Jakarta flood problem has been around for a long time.

"This flood has not been completed in 1 to 2 years. In fact, the flood problem has not been resolved for years. Not only in Jakarta, but in big cities around the world, we see floods for ourselves on TV. Big big cities are great modern is also flooded", he said.