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our comments on the plan by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) to continue modifying the weather until late March at a cost of billions of rupiah to protect Jakarta against major flooding:

The rain can’t be stopped. It is crazy if the BNPB think they can stop it. As Australians say “Tell ‘em they’re dreaming”.

If you want to protect Jakartans from the flooding, fix the infrastructure of the city, it’s the only way!

Dave
Jakarta

In the 1980s, Moh. Soebagio of the Agency for the Research and Application of Technology and I made a stopover in Bangkok on our way to Jakarta from Manila.

We stayed there for a few days with the intention of learning about weather modification, which we called hujan buatan (literary meaning rain making) from Thailand.

The Thais had started this much earlier.

If the BNPB is still on that technology, I am very pessimistic.

However if the BNPB succeed, the cost of billions of rupiah to protect Jakarta against major flooding will be absolutely nothing .

E Nurdin
Jakarta

Current technology and financial resources are able to modify weather conditions.

It has been done by moving rainfall from the capital city of Jakarta to the sea north of the city.

A successful effort to avoid heavy rains and flooding in the city of Jakarta.

But the BNPB must be warned not to overdo this practice because Jakarta still needs enough rain, otherwise wells will dry up causing people to suffer from water shortages.

Soebagjo Soetadji
Jakarta

I fully support The National Disaster Mitigation Agency continuing to modify the weather to protect Jakarta against major flooding.

If the agency could succeed in their modifying of the weather to reduce if not eliminate floods; many if not all of our neighboring countries would welcome it, too.

State funds retrieved from corruption could be directed to fund the national program. In the meantime we will welcome ideas on how to save the capital city from drowning; while Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama are busy coping with the national problems.

M Adikoesoemo
Jakarta