Jakarta Is Still Flooding, Heru Budi Admits Ciliwung Sodetan's SOP Needs To Be Improved

Sodetan Ciliwung di wilayah Jakarta. (Kemen PURR)

JAKARTA - A number of areas in Jakarta were flooded on Saturday, November 4 and Sunday, November 5 due to heavy rains and causing rivers to overflow. In fact, currently, Sodetan Ciliwung has started operating.

Responding to this, Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono admitted that the standard operating procedure (SOP) for water flow that enters the Ciliwung Sodetan to be channeled into the East Flood Canal (BKT) still needs to be repaired.

"So yesterday the SOP was about to be repaired. The Cisadane Hall (Ciliwung Cisadane River Balai) and the Natural Resources Service (Source Daya Air) are mixing again," Heru said when met at the DKI Jakarta DPRD Building, Tuesday, November 7.

Heru explained that currently the flow of water entering the Sodetan Ciliwung inlet is first held at a certain water level. Sodetan will operate by flowing water to outlets at BKT when the Ciliwung River is almost full.

Thus, a number of sub-districts that are claimed to be no longer flooded thanks to the presence of Sodetan Ciliwung are still flooded a few days ago. One of them is in Bidara Cina Village.

"So far, I've been waiting for a certain position, then he ran away. Yesterday I asked to distribute it directly to just two. So, in Bidara Cina it's not like yesterday," he said.

Previously, the DKI Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) recorded that 54 East Jakarta and South Jakarta RTs were flooded on Sunday, November 5 at 12.00 WIB due to heavy rains that flushed the Jakarta area and its surroundings.

It was recorded that through the rainfall monitoring station of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), there was rain with very heavy to extreme intensity in Jagorawi Bogor of 156 millimeters (mm), Depok 1 of 148 mm, Pasar Minggu of 126 mm, and at the Katulampa Dam of 111 mm.

Head of DKI Jakarta BPBD Isnawa Adji said that flooding occurred due to high rainfall and water shipments from buffer areas which caused the Ciliwung River and Baru River to overflow.

"BPBD recorded that the inundation previously occurred in 22 RTs, is currently 54 RT or 0.175 percent of the 30,772 RTs in the DKI Jakarta area at 12.00 WIB," Isnawa said in his statement, Sunday, November 5.

The locations that were flooded were 6 RTs in Cililitan Village with water levels reaching 1.6 meters, 14 RTs in Cawang Village with water levels up to 1.6 meters, 5 RTs in Bidara Cina Village with water levels of up to 2.5 meters, and 27 RTs in Kampung Melayu Village with water levels up to 1.75 meters.

Meanwhile, the distribution of RT that was flooded in South Jakarta was 1 RT in Rawajati Village with a water level of 60 centimeters, and 1 RT in Kebon Baru Village with a water level of up to 60 centimeters.