Flood and It’s people

Mid-January, two RW in Penjaringan, North Jakarta have started flooding submerged due to rain. Similarly, in Rawa Buaya, Cengkareng. Gust Times Mookevart force residents evacuate because her house was flooded up to 1 metre.

Start of this month until March 2009, the Meteorological and Geophysics climatology (BMKG), tell intensity of rainfall will be quite high and can cause some areas in Jakarta will stagnate.

Although Jakarta has been doing Pemprov preventive measures such as dredging several times, cleaning up garbage in some estuary, make Satkorlak (Unit Executive Coordinator) to village level, but there is no telling anticipation in the face of disaster is annual.

Jakarta (Cengkareng, Kalideres, and Kebonjeruk) and Jakarta (Koja, Kelapa Gading, Pademangan, Penjaringan, and Tanjungpriok) is a regional flood. Each year, the region is certainly stagnant flood. Until-up, the people there to become familiar with what caused the flood.

Talk about the flood, I remember the house with a friend in Duri Kosambi, West Jakarta. Each season, he always was, was the flood. Each time water is MHT swamp road in front of her house, she immediately bribe home furniture, electronic goods, securities, and enough food.

All that he move to the top floor of the house made sober. Not permanent, such as in the complex-housing complex, which can be important for sleep and not exposed to rain.

When the rain never stopping, along with his wife, he is not lelap asleep. Bersiaga if there is a flood shipment usually comes unexpectedly. Oil lamps and candles were prepared not forget, it's also a guard, if the power off.

My friend that, already inhabit the area from an 90-year. He and the surrounding community, already familiar with the flood diligently to come to the area. Although there is little fear, as it deems flood usual. Until he said, "Jakarta is not the name, if it is flooding!"

To heard that, I think so, why Jakarta is very sticky with a flood? Start at the coloring Jakarta floods each year? And why the provincial government can not anticipate and prevent flooding?

Perhaps it is a normal question. But it's always a question, I believe, not even one person who can answer it with concrete and realistic solutions. Why? Because flooding is not only a problem that people carelessly dispose of garbage in the Times Mookevart, no longer just a problem of building a property developer in the region serapan water, or not becusnya not only the government in managing the administration of the city.

Floods have become a complex problem that requires not only answers, but also committed a clear, decisive, and sustainable from the various parties. Both from the government, society, and private parties and business.

Quick Reaction Society
Of the blame on each other and who demand the most responsible, there are good people to do what the friend I mentioned above. Preparing to minimize the flood damage.

Start collecting securities, thinking which will be placed in electronic goods when the floods came, set up emergency lighting equipment (candles, oil lamps, petromaks, generator), or separate the clothing and food pickup if the flood forced us to evacuate.

Then they make the region free of flooding, may suggest that, can begin to plan the establishment of posko-posko assistance. Posko can be established in homes with children to empower local youth. They can gather support from residents or business located in their territory.

If flooding is widespread, public kitchen become the most needed assistance. Because the area is usually affected by flooding, have no land to build public kitchen. Society needs more practical things that when the flood. Make a side dish with rice wrapped pauk that can be distributed to the post-evacuation or post directly to the flood affected areas.

In the flood disaster, especially for those who live in areas prone to flooding, the community must be pro-active in anticipating flood.

As well as quick reaction from the community (which is not affected by the flood). Coordination at the residents in the neighborhood will not help very difficult. So that the assistance in various forms can be collected and distributed quickly. Another case with the government have often contribute assistance.