TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tri Budiarto, emergency response director at the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) announced that Jakarta would be on flood alert starting from January 1, 2015. The status was announced so that all government units would prepare for floods that might hit Jakarta in late January, Tri said during a coordination meeting at City Hall on Friday, December 19, 2014.
During the meeting, Mulyono Prabowo, the head of public meteorology center at the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), said the peak of rainy season in Jakarta would occur on the last ten days of January and in the last ten days of February.
“Since the land contour in northern areas, particularly in Jakarta, is lower than that in south, rain will often occur in Jakarta,” Mulyono said, adding that high tide due to a full moon phase would occur at the same time.
Based on Mulyono’s explanation, Tri assumed that the flood emergency status in Jakarta should be set from January 20 to February 10, 2015. The transition period from disaster emergency status to disaster relief was set until early March 2015.
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