BMKG predicted start October 2009-2010 East Java will flooded with rain water. First, because of the season, the wet season. Second, it is because of the floods, increasing in intensity and range each year, have several contributing factors, including poor city planning (which ignores water catchment areas), and the river fulls of garbage.
To decrease the flooding, government gave some money to dredging rivers; accelerating construction work on the East Flood Canal project; making dams; and dredging drainage areas. These concepts are from dutch. However, the project, Flood Canal, was hardly finished when the worst flood to have hit the city came in 2007.
At that time, floods inundated 70,000 houses, displaced 420,440 people and killed 69, according to the World Health Organization.
According to the National Development Planning Agency (Bapenas), the 2007 flood caused Rp 8.8 trillion (US$932.8 million) in damages.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/24/here-comes-rain-water-and-floods.html
by: Gabriella 7A
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