FLOODING IN JAKARTA ( again )

After the severe flooding on January 1, 2020 followed by a series of floods during January - February, now severe floods have again occurred on February 23, 2020. Various speculations about the causes of flooding and the impact felt by the community began to emerge.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) revealed that climate change is happening that increases the risk and opportunities of extreme rainfall so that it triggers Jakarta floods. BMKG Deputy Climatologist Herizal said, the floods in the early 2020s that occurred in Jakarta and surrounding areas due to extreme rainfall (more than 150 mm per day) which dropped quite evenly in the DKI Jakarta area. Extreme rainfall beginning in 2020 is one of the most extreme rain events as long as there is measurement and recording of rainfall in Jakarta and its surroundings. in the other hand, there is another caused the flooding in jakarta, flood occurred because of the smaller drainage compared high rainfall intensity . The small drainage capacity was allegedly not able to accommodate the volume of water that overflowed.

What are the impacts that arise and are felt when floods hit? at least 12 village in North Jakarta were affected by the flood and caused 2,188 people to be displaced scattered in 26 refugee points . Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) in this region was also flooded, especially in the Radiology section, which caused a number of medical equipment to be damaged.

Not only that, business activities are hampered, many economic activities are forced to stop during floods. in the economic sector flooding can disrupt the distribution of goods and cause delays in planting food commodities, causing price increases.  In healthy flooding also brings many potential diseases, flooding is the moment where insects that spread disease can reproduce. With these conditions, cases of diseases such

If calculated from the beginning of the year up to now there have been 4 floods coming to Jakarta, although natural factors at least the government must be more alert in overcoming them, perhaps it can start from paying attention to the existing drainage and other supporting factors. Because when a flood comes there are many adverse impacts on the community and it is unfortunate even until the casualties.