Minister of Public Works: Overcome Flooding to Expand Watershed

Headline - the big rain hit Jakarta at the end of 2012 caused flooding in several areas, including the Sudirman-Thamrin protocol. Ministry of Public Works argued, was due to drainage flooding in Jakarta are no longer able to accommodate the high rainfall.


"If the floods that hit Jalan Sudirman-Thamrin was due to local drainage may be a dead end, it should be cleaned," said Public Works Minister Djoko Kirmanto, in the office of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Jakarta, Wednesday, December 26, 2012.

Meanwhile, flooding around the banks of the river, he continued, because many of the people who live along time. The solution is to dredge and enlarge the flow of the river. However, the government has trouble with many people who make the river bank as a place to live.

For that, he appreciates the steps the Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo, which will build flats to people around the Ciliwung River can be moved. After the move, the Ministry of Public Works to begin the expansion of the Ciliwung River.

"Moving people there procedures. Generate flats first, then talks between the Government of DKI Jakarta and the communities in the outskirts times. If you do not want to subject to flooding, so people have to move," he said.

He explained that the problem of flooding that hit Jakarta can not be solved by shifting the responsibility of the central government and local governments. According to him, the central and local governments must work together with the existing division of tasks each.

"We make no distinction between the task, but mutually supporting each task," he said. (art)

Sources: http://bisnis.news.viva.co.id/news/read/377514