REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Jakarta has allocated 1.12 trillion IDR to tackle flood problem this year. "We will focus on tackling flood problem in Jakarta. The budget has been approved by the city's legislative body," the city administration's head of public works service, Ery Basworo, said on Sunday.

He said 541.8 billion IDR of the funds would be used for physical development projects including installation of sheet piles along rivers and dams to strengthen the banks so that they would not easily collapse. The rest would be used for clearing lands especially along the river banks, he said.

"Some of the physical development projects would be carried out by the central government such as the construction of a waterway that would connect the West and East Flood Control Canals and the Jakarta Emergency Dredging Initiative," he said.

Basworo said 582.8 billion IDR of the budget would be used to clear lands along Angke river bank totaling 50 billion IDR, Sunter river bank 100 billion IDR and Pesanggrahan river bank 200 billion IDR.

"Right now the city's budget for 2013 has been sent to the ministry of home affairs and after approval and signed, we will start the land clearing and new physical development projects," Basworo said. A total of 78 flood locations have been recorded and the city administration has set a target of eliminating eight to ten of them every year. 

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