- Title: Jakarta governor says hundreds pumps deployed to pump flood water out
- Date: 2nd January 2020
- Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (JANUARY 2, 2020) (REUTERS) PEOPLE WALKING ON FLOODED STREET WATER PUMP PEOPLE WALKING BY RIVER JAKARTA GOVERNOR ANIES BASWEDAN SPEAKING TO LOCAL RESIDENT (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) JAKARTA GOVERNOR ANIES BASWEDAN, SAYING: "Health care and logistics services will continue, and we are grateful at the moment the condition has become better and we hope the flood water will recede. Currently, there are 478 pumps that is working to suck water out." BASWEDAN SPEAKING TO MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) JAKARTA GOVERNOR ANIES BASWEDAN, SAYING: "This area had undergone normalisation program but floods still happened. In the long-term plan, we need to look into a comprehensive solution, include handling water from the upstream area by building dams and reservoirs, so there will be retention pool to control the volume of water flow to downstream. Hopefully, through this method like this it will help. But this is all up to the central government." VARIOUS OF TRACTOR DIGGING TRASH FROM RIVER BED VARIOUS OF ALUNG (LEFT) SITTING IN FRONT OF HIS SHOP (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) RESIDENT FROM EAST JAKARTA, ALUNG, SAYING: "Compared to the past it is not so good now, the river bank normalisation project at Ciliwung river did not continue (after the new Jakarta government took over in 2017), and artificial canal project didn't carry out too, that's why the flooding become worst, like a repeat of 2007." PEOPLE IN FLOODED COMMUNITY CHILDREN PLAYING AND SWIMMING IN FLOOD WATER VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SITTING ON DINGHY VARIOUS OF HOUSES SUBMERGED WITH WATER EXTERIOR OF MOSQUE THAT HAS BECOME TEMPORARY SHELTER VARIOUS OF EVACUEES IN MOSQUE MAN SLEEPING INSIDE MOSQUE
- Embargoed: 16th January 2020 11:12
- Keywords: Anies Baswedan Indonesia Jakarta floods governor residents
- Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
- City: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Floods
- Reuters ID: LVA001BUHAQ87
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan on Thursday (January 2) said hundreds of pumps were deployed to suck flood water out from residential areas on hope to bring people home as flood waters inundated the Indonesian capital for the second day.
At least 26 people have died and thousands were displaced after flash floods and landslides hit Jakarta on New Year's day, the social affairs ministry said.
A local resident in east Jakarta said this year's flooding was the worst after the city government halted a river bank normalisation project in the area sitting next to the Ciliwung river, which runs more than 100 km (60 miles) from its source in West Java to Jakarta bay, and had become a dumping ground for local community.
Baswedan called the central government to build dams and reservoirs to control water flow from the upstream, adding that it remains up to the central government to carry out the solutions.
Jakarta and its surroundings are home to more than 30 million people. More than 50 people died in one of the capital's deadliest floods in 2007 and five years ago much of the centre of the city was inundated after canals overflowed.
The government announced last year that it would relocate its capital to East Kalimantan province on Borneo, though the planning ministry also pledged that the government would invest $40 billion in modernising Jakarta.
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