REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- An all out effort and cooperation between all parties are needed to coordinate efforts following the floods that inundated several areas in Bandung District, West Java, an official said.
"All related parties, officials and non official agencies, need to make comprehensive efforts to overcome the floods," the head of the Data Information Center and Public Relations of the National Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said here on Saturday (27/12).
The floods have inundated five sub-districts in Bandung District in the past ten days, and have not yet receded in some areas.
A total of 14,276 people, or 4,409 families, are still being housed at evacuation centers, of whom 5,365 persons (1,608 families) are in Baleendah subdistrict, 5,827 (1,906 families) in Dayeuhkolot subdistrict, 1,680 persons (498 families) in Bojongsoang subdistrict, 747 people (229 families) in Ketapang subdistrict and 657 others (159 families) in the subdistrict of Cicalengka.
In the last four days, the floods have also inundated two traditional markets located in Dayeuhkolot and Baleendah, Bandung District.
"Some 328 traders in both markets cannot sell their goods due to the floods. Hundreds of shops are also closed due to the inundation," Poppy, the head of the Bandung trade and industrial cooperatives, remarked here on Friday.
The district has eight traditional markets, two of which are flooded.
Earlier, thousands of houses and farms in some sub-districts in Bandung district were flooded, as many rivers, including Citarum, overflowed their banks following torrential rains over the last few days.
The flood-affected sub-districts include Baleendah, Dayeuhkolot, Bojongsoang, Kutawaringin, Solokanjeruk, and Rancaekek, a local officer of the Baleendah disaster command post said last week.
"Baleendah is the worst hit of all the affected sub-districts, as the Banjaran-Dayeuhkolot route has been cut off. Thousands of houses in Baleendah and Dayeuhkolot have been flooded in the seasonal deluge," he added.
Flood waters reached heights ranging from 50 centimeters to 1.5 meters, forcing flood victims to evacuate to higher grounds.
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