TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - West Java Governor, Ahmad Heryawan, praised the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) for their response towards natural disaster and asked that they increase their alert in the coming months.
“BPBD must be available 24/7, wherever disaster strikes," he said, Aher added that in West Java, the two disasters that needs to be monitored upclose are draught and flood.
Therefore, he asked the National Agency to help train BPNB to respond to such emergency.
Previously, the Meteorlogy, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency in Bandung has predicted that the peak of the rainy season will fall on November - sith a double rise on the precipitation.
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