Dua Tewas dan Empat Hilang Akibat Longsor di Puncak
Indonesia`s Capital Braces for Floods as Landslides Kill 2
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
JAKARTA bersiap menghadapi banjir pada Senin akibat hujan deras mengguyur Jakarta, dan di Riung Gunung - Puncak terjadi tanah longsor yang menewaskan sedikitnya dua orang.
Kapolres Bogor Kombes Andi M Dicky Pastika mengatakan bahwa tim penyelamat dan evakuasi menemukan dua jenazah.
Ratusan orang termasuk polisi, tentara dan warga menggali timbunan tanah dengan tangan kosong, sekop, dan cangkul untuk mencari korban longsor yang masih hilang, katanya. Traktor dan buldoser tiba di daerah yang paling parah terkena dampak bencana di Riung Gunung untuk membantu penyelamatan korban.
Juru bicara Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Nasional (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho mengatakan, tanah longsor di empat daerah di sepanjang destinasi wisata berhawa sejuk di Puncak memaksa pihak berwenang menutup jalan raya menghubungkan Puncak ke Jakarta dan Bogor.
Dia mengatakan Jabodetabek, dengan lebih dari 30 juta orang bermukim di wilayah metropolitannya telah meningkatkan kewaspadaan terhadap risiko bencana alam khususnya banjir.
Banjir sudah terjadi di bagian timur kota di daerah yang dekat dengan Sungai Ciliwung.
Musim hujan musiman mengakibatkan bencana tanah longsor dan banjir bandang setiap tahunnya di Indonesia, sebuah negara kepulauan yang memiliki lebih dari 17.000 pulau di mana jutaan orang tinggal di daerah pegunungan atau dataran rendah yang subur seperti dikutip Associated Press yang dilansir MailOnline.
INDONESIA´S capital braced for floods Monday as torrential rain triggered landslides in neighboring West Java, killing at least two people.
The police chief in West Java´s Bogor district, Andi M. Dicky Pastika, said rescuers have found two bodies.
Hundreds of people including police, soldiers and residents were digging through the debris with their hands, shovels and hoes for four people who were still missing, he said. Tractors and bulldozers were arriving in the worst-affected area of Riung Gunung village to help with the rescue effort.
National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said landslides in four areas along the hilly resort town of Puncak have blocked the main road connecting the area to Jakarta.
He said Jakarta, with more than 30 million people in its greater metropolitan area, has raised its flood alert to the highest level.
Flooding was already occurring in the east of the city in areas close to the Ciliwung River.
Seasonal downpours cause dozens of landslides and flash floods each year in Indonesia, an archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands where millions of people live in mountainous areas or near fertile flood plains.