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Thousands displaced in Jakarta as floods recede
As of 5 p.m. on Sunday, South Gunung Sahari subdistrict in Central Jakarta was the last area to be inundated with floodwaters above 150 centimeters, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) website for real-time flood information, petabencana.id.
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Water world: Vehicles drive slowly along waterlogged streets in Grogol, West Jakarta, in January 2019. Floods hit the capital city and its neighbors over the New Year following prolonged heavy rainfall. (JP/Dhoni Setiawan)
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loodwaters have started to recede after inundating areas of Jakarta and displacing residents as rains reached what is expected to be their seasonal peak over the weekend.
As of 5 p.m. on Sunday, South Gunung Sahari subdistrict in Central Jakarta was the last area to be inundated with floodwaters above 150 centimeters, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) website for real-time flood information, petabencana.id.
Jakarta Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) head Subejo said the flooding had subsided and the number of inundated areas was decreasing.
"We hope that in the next few days the risk of flooding will get lower," he told The Jakarta Post via text message on Sunday.
Some people are still displaced, living in shelters as they wait for the mud in their neighborhood to be cleaned up, according to an agency statement released earlier on Sunday.
The number of displaced residents declined to 1,575 people on Sunday from 2,867 people on Saturday. They took refuge in 13 shelters, 10 of which were located in East Jakarta, two in South Jakarta and one in North Jakarta.
The capital has been grappling with flooding since the New Year's Eve disaster which, according to BNPB, claimed 51 lives and displaced 27,971 people due to an all-night extreme rain. The rainfall intensity – the ratio between the total amount of rainfall and its duration – reached 377 mm per day during the disaster, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).
