Indonesia: Heavy rain makes thousands of houses flooded

Heavy rains during the past week have caused serious flooding in many parts of Jakarta, causing tens of thousands of houses and public buildings to flood in the country, causing great damage to people and property.

Sutopo Nugroho, president of Jakarta Information, Data and Public Relations Center, said the floods had sunk 50 areas in the capital, causing nearly 20,300 houses to be flooded, causing landslides, causing at least eight people to die. network and some missing cases.

Traffic in many parts of the capital city of Jakarta has been congested, even stagnant, some railways connecting the capital with the provinces must also be suspended due to many areas deeply submerged, such as Kampung Pulo. in 3M Jakarta flooded 3m, or Kedoya Selatan in West Jakarta flooded 2m.

Severe flooding in Indonesia

In response to natural disasters, the city government had to mobilize evacuation forces of nearly 9,400 people out of dangerous areas. Among them, the most heavily affected areas were East Jakarta with over 4,300 evacuees, West Jakarta (over 2,400 people) and South Jakarta (over 2,100 people).

The Jakarta Disaster Reduction Agency (BNPB) has deployed rapid response units with 150 employees, along with the Red Cross and city police to carry out relief, medical care and provision activities. medicine, food, clean water for victims, arrange temporary victims in hospitals, stadiums, medical facilities, bus stations . However, because of the number of people evacuated too large so many cases are still not receiving support from the government.

The Jakarta government is urgently responding, preparing plans to continue evacuating the people, which are expected to continue to rise in the coming days as the rain continues and causes the water levels of the canals and rivers to flow across the city. The city - which has been at its highest level in five years - continues to rise.

Apart from the capital city of Jakarta, large-scale heavy rains have severely affected many cities and provinces in the island nation. According to the Indonesian Environmental Protection Organization (Walhi), floods and landslides caused by flooding (66 cases) have killed 140 people in 54 localities across the country in 2012. Natural situation ears continue to go bad, causing deep concern for the authorities and humanitarian organizations when witnessing tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, isolated areas, 22 people died in just over time first half of this year.