Recently, many disasters have attacked
our nation, Indonesia. Started from the western part of Indonesia,
North Sumatera, in which the volcanic activity of Sinabung Mountain
was just started to be more active. Then, in the outskirt of Kediri,
East Java; Kelud Mountain erupted its magma on the late night of
February 13, 2014. However, there is still one big disaster that
always attacks one district of our nation for the each year, that is
flooding disaster which annually occurred in Indonesia's capital city,
Jakarta. The first and second mentioned disasters may be likely
caused by natural symptoms and matters which could not be eschewed
by anyone. However, the floods in Jakarta might more feasibly because of
humans' bad deeds.
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| Embarrassing and pathetic view of our capital city, Jakarta |
As we have known, there is innumerable quantity of people and urbanists who decide to live in Jakarta even though there is not much space to be built as the housings. Thus, they decide to build so many huge and enormous buildings on water absorption area and also on the shore of the rivers, such as Ciliwung and Angke River. Moreover, the society of Jakarta like and tend to throw the trashes directly to the rivers which then causes the water to be unable to flow as the trashes cover the surface of the rivers. Automatically, when wet season comes, water debits would increase and then permeate into everywhere and eventually caused the floods in many sectors of Jakarta.
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| Total weight of trashes on Jakarta's river reached the number of 38 tons |
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| Latest statistic and updateof Jakarta's population density |
Thus, to diminish the frequency of flood and to overcome this annual disaster, the government should adjudicate the limitation of urbanists and also make a strict regulation and prohibition to the society to not to build any building on water absorption area and to throw trashes everywhere. So, there would not be annual disaster which is formed as flood in every wet season in Jakarta. Furthermore, if the government do this, it will also benefit to the society itself and also to our nation, Indonesia; as it will no more again embarrass our capital city that should be so much better than the other districts of Indonesia.
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| Both funny and pathetic illustration of flood disaster in Jakarta |
