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Ciliwung river normalization to resume in 2023
Acting Jakarta governor Heru Budi Hartono is continuing the river normalization project on the Ciliwung River to mitigate flooding in the city, which has previously been halted.
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Workers install sheet piles along the Ciliwung Kecil River in Jakarta on Sept. 28, 2018. (Antara/Muhammad Adimaja)
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta
Acting Jakarta governor Heru Budi Hartono is continuing the river normalization project on the Ciliwung River to mitigate flooding in the city, which has previously been halted.
The Public Works and Housing Ministry’s (PUPR) Ciliwung Cisadane Flood Control Office (BBWSCC) head Bambang Heri Mulyono said that the river normalization project would resume according to its previous design, which was mainly building concrete embankments, in 2023.
“We cooperate with the Jakarta Administration that provided the land on which we will build river embankments on,” Bambang told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
However, he said that river normalization did not mean only by building river embankments, as some parts of the river might need to be dredged of sediments depending on their physical situation.
The river normalization project, which was under the BBWSCC purview, was initiated in 2013 along a designated 33-kilometer stretch of the Ciliwung River in Jakarta. However, as of 2017 only about 16 km of the river had been normalized.
