Jakarta Provincial Government focus normalize and dredging the river to cope with flooding.

Ciliwung river dredging

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo

Jakarta Provincial Government focus normalize and dredging the river to cope with flooding.

"We have to concentrate normalized and river dredging. Rainfall currently high, the water discharge is also starting up. Works must be accelerated," said Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (Jokowi) at City Hall on Tuesday.

According Jokowi This year, Jakarta government prepared a budget of Rp450 billion to normalize large rivers.

"The budget will be used for land acquisition for normalization big-time in Jakarta, including Pesanggrahan, Angke and Sunter," he said.

In addition to dredging the river, he continued, the Jakarta administration will also build canals to prevent flooding.

According to him, flood canal can reduce 16 points from a total of 78 points prone to flooding in Jakarta. The Jakarta administration seeks to reduce further eight to 12 points prone to flooding every year.

According to data from the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), water level in the dam reached 210 centimeters Katulampa at 07.30 am this morning, which means the Upper Ciliwung river discharge is the highest alert or standby position I.