Sigi Anticipation Regency Government Dissipates The Waterfall Of The Flood River Of Residents' Houses With Bamboo Plants In The Watershed

Illustration of bamboo trees. (Unsplash-David J. Boozer)

SULTENG - Sigi Regency Government (Pemkab) appealed to residents to plant bamboo on the riverbanks to prevent flooding when heavy rains fell.

"Let's jointly preserve the environment, especially riverbanks by planting bamboo to prevent flood disasters," said Deputy Regent Sigi Samuel Yansen Pongi in Sigi, Central Sulawesi (Sulteng), Tuesday, February 14, as reported by Antara.

Sigi Regency Government, said Samuel, has the Sigi Hijau program for environmental conservation, one of which is the implementation of the program is planting bamboo.

Through this program, he said, the Sigi Regency Government held one million bamboo which was given to the community to be planted on the banks of the river.

"Bambu is planted along the river for the preservation of watersheds which are expected to be able to stem flooding during heavy rains," he said.

He said Sigi is an area surrounded by mountains and has many rivers in the highlands, so it is prone to flooding if it rains heavily.

"Therefore, the preservation of river basins is an effort to reduce disaster risk," he said.

He said the government was tasked with and seeking security related to flooding by normalizing. At the time of the normalization process, people were asked not to plant cocoa, coffee, or any plants behind gabions, but plant bamboo.

Samuel Pongi asked the sub-district heads and village heads to socialize the importance of reforestation of river basins to reduce the risk of flooding to the community.

He explained that the Sigi Regency Government made efforts to normalize river basins to reduce the risk of flooding. Normalization efforts were carried out in coordination with the Sulawesi III River Basin Center.

In addition, the district government is working with the Bambu Lestari Foundation to carry out a bamboo planting movement on the banks of the river.

"The Sigi Regency Government thanks the Lore Lindu National Park Center (BTNLL) for participating in fostering the community around TNLL for environmental conservation," he said.