Mitigating the Floods Seriously

Entering 2020, Greater Jakarta has experienced alarming natural disasters. High rainfall in the late afternoon at the end of 2019 caused flooding in many locations.

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Housing units are marketed in the Duren Village housing complex in Ciledug, Tangerang city, Banten, on Thursday (02/01/2020). A number of housing units that are being marketed in the area were flooded.

Some houses were not only flooded with water depth of more than 2 meters but also hit by heavy currents. A number of residential areas that have never been flooded before were also inundated. Toll roads also cannot escape from the raging flooding.

At least 169 locations in Greater Jakarta and Banten province were inundated and at least 60 people were killed and 173,050 others were displaced. Most of the areas affected by the flooding are located in West Java, with 97 locations (Bekasi regency 32 locations, Bekasi city 53 locations and Bogor regency 12 locations) and Jakarta with 63 locations. A number of areas in Lebak regency, Banten, were hit by flash floods and landslides, which forced 17,200 people to flee their homes.