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Advocacy teams set to file class action suit as hundreds lodge complaints over deadly floods
Alvon Kurnia Palma, one of the lawyers of the 2020 Jakarta Class Action Lawsuit Advocacy Team, who has been gathering evidence for the legal action, told The Jakarta Post that as of Thursday, they had received 600 reports via email and had input 243 reports into their document.
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Residents start to clean out their flood-impacted houses in Pondok Gede Permai housing area in Jati Asih in Bekasi, West Java on Jan 3, 2020. Residents of the housing complex suffered major losses from the massive flooding that hit on Jan 1. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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undreds of flood survivors have filed complaints through centers set up by local movements amid efforts to prepare class action against the government and regional administrations to push for compensation and better prevention measures following the severe flooding that impacted thousands of people in Greater Jakarta.
Public lawyers grouped under the 2020 Jakarta Flood Victims Advocacy Team, Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation and 2020 Bekasi Flood Victims Advocacy Team each set up their own complaint centers on Jan 6 for flood victims to lodge their complaints and report losses they had suffered.
The centers are part of preparation for a class action suit the groups intend to file against their respective administrations over their alleged failure to anticipate the severe flooding.
The move came following massive flooding that struck Jakarta and its peripheral areas on the first day of 2020 that claimed at least 60 lives, displaced thousands of people and caused billions of rupiah in losses.
The flooding from the torrential rain that poured down on Greater Jakarta since New Year’s eve also caused material and other losses, with many people's houses, vehicles and documents destroyed by the floods.
Alvon Kurnia Palma, one of the lawyers of the 2020 Jakarta Class Action Lawsuit Advocacy Team, who has been gathering evidence for the legal action, told The Jakarta Post that as of Thursday, they had received 600 reports via email and had input 243 reports into their document.
Of the 243 who reported to the advocacy team, 186 of them declared the value of losses they incurred due to the flooding. The declared losses totaled Rp 43.32 billion (US$3.14 million), with the smallest loss documented at Rp 890,000 and the highest at Rp 8.7 billion.
