Anticipating Floods, West Jakarta Plans Apuran Pump House

This handling involves the government together with the community, business actors, academics and the media. Area planning is carried out through a persuasive approach to provide space for water.

Other improvements include normalizing channels at a number of points in Kapuk and Rawa Buaya, draining channels, and repairing retaining walls or sheet piles at Mookevart River in RW 08 Kedaung Kaliangke.

Iin appreciated the mud dredging carried out by officials in the Cengkareng area. He asked that these activities continue on micro channels and connecting channels with the SDA Sub-dept. to deal with the rainy season.

Kapuk Raya Channel Still Flooded

Even though the dredging has been carried out, Iin highlighted the condition of the water channels on Jalan Kapuk Raya which are still flooded.

"When I came and looked again, the water channel in front of the Kapuk Village office was still high," he said.

Head of the West Jakarta SDA Sub-dept. Mustajab explained that this condition was influenced by inflow from the Rawa Bengkel connecting channel. The problem is exacerbated by the downstream part being covered by buildings.

"So the water flow enters the canal on Jalan Kapuk Raya. This is also the impact of the volume of the irrigation canal," he said.