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Bad weather halts Tangerang sea fence demolition
The Water and Air Police have postponed the operation to dismantle a segment of the controversial bamboo fence installed illegally off the coast of Tangerang regency, Banten due to bad weather.
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A plane passes over residential high-rises on Jan. 9, 2025, behind a mysterious bamboo fence of 30 kilometers in length in the coastal waters of Tangerang, Banten. (Antara/Sulthony Hasanuddin)
The Water and Air Police have postponed the operation to dismantle a segment of the controversial bamboo fence installed illegally off the coast of Tangerang regency, Banten, due to bad weather.
The police have been working under a joint operation led by the Navy to remove the bamboo fence that spans 30 kilometers in waters across six districts in Tangerang across since Jan. 18.
The Water and Air Police were supposed to resume the operation on a segment located in the waters off Sukadiri district on Wednesday but high waves forced them to call off the operation.
“It’s impossible for us to remove the fence under such weather conditions,” Water and Air Police director Brig. Gen. Hero Henrianto Bachtiar said on Wednesday, as quoted from the police official news channel.
“We will assess the weather conditions and resume the operation if feasible," Hero added.
The joint operation had taken down 18.7 km of the fence by Thursday in various segments across Tangerang, leaving some 11 km remaining to be dismantled.
The illegal structure emerged in the public spotlight this year following viral pictures and videos questioning its origin. No one seemed to know who had built it or why it had been built, though speculation that the structure was installed in connection with land reclamation projects continues to gain traction.
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