Flash floods hit three villages in Sumberjambe District, Jember Regency, East Java, causing road access to be buried by landslides and cannot be passed.
The river in the 7th Bidadari Waterfall overflowed on Monday (23/12) causing flooding accompanied by sandy mud material to enter residential roads and residents' houses, causing road access to be buried by mud material.
"The heavy rain that flushed from morning to night on Sunday (22/12) caused flooding accompanied by mud material to hit three villages in Sumberjambe District," said Head of Sumberjambe Umar Faroek as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 24.
According to him, the three villages that were hit by flash floods were Rowosari, Jambearum, and Gunung Malang Villages, but there were no casualties in the natural disaster.
"The flash flood caused the residents' houses to be heavily damaged or destroyed in East Gardu Hamlet, Rowosari Village, and road access to residential areas in East Gardu Hamlet, Rowosari Village, to be cut off due to thick mud material on the road," he said.
The road access, which is filled with mud and wood material along the 100-150 meters, is rather difficult to clean manually, so it hopes that there will be heavy equipment assistance to clean up the remaining materials so that road access can be passed again.
"To get to the Jambearum Village Hall, we still can't, because the road access is buried by mud material and wood carried by flash floods. Today we are working together to clean a number of road accesses," he said.
Farouk explained that the impact of flash floods also caused a number of clean water installation pipes in Jambearum Village to be damaged, even though the pipe was to drain clean water to residents in Pringgodani and Plerean villages in Sumberjambe District.
Meanwhile, Head of the Jember Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Widodo Julianto said the road access was still covered in mud with a thickness of about 40 cm.
"A total of 25 families have fled to their relatives' homes, for fear of further flash floods, considering that the rainfall is still quite high in Jember," he said.
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