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Report canoes, sandbags found in waterways to police: Ahok
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Several residents stand on an inundated road near their houses in Cipinang Melayu, East Jakarta on Thursday. (tribunnews.com/Junianto Hamonangan)
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akarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has said that various goods found in a number of waterways might be responsible for Tuesday’s flooding in many parts of the capital.
Objects such as canoes, sandbags, logs, pieces of plywood and tires were found in waterways on Fatmawati and Jl. Gatot Subroto in South Jakarta and Jl. M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta.
“How could eight sandbags have got into the waterways? There must have been some people who put them there intentionally. It’s the same with the big canoe that got into the waterways. Just report any findings to police,” Ahok said in a meeting in Jakarta on Friday.
The meeting was also attended by representatives of relevant agencies including the water management agency and provincial disaster mitigation agency as well as North Jakarta Mayor Rustam Effendi and Central Jakarta Mayor Mangara Pardede.
The meeting was to evaluate flooding in some 20 subdistricts that inundated roads and residential areas, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their houses.
Ahok ordered workers of the city water management agency to continuously monitor the waterways to avoid flooding in the capital. He also ordered them to check the permits of people carrying out digging projects in waterways as their activities might be illegal. (bbn)
