Evacuation Route in Cipinang Besar Utara

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When flood happen, community definitely needs evacuation route. High stream has caused significant difficulties in evacuation effort. Based on discussion between community and ACF, they need a series of pole with rope attached in it to form evacuation route. ACF facilitate the process of developing evacuation route by providing the pole and the rope. The rope will be tied to the pole and a floating body. The floating body will keep the rope afloat and showing the mark of the rope in case the water gets higher. On this process, community provide the land and human resources to do the physical work.




The construction process was started on Friday, January 11th 2008. Rabinarayan Rabinarayan Gouda (DRR Regional Adviser) and Moustapha Harouna (DRR Program Manager) has come to launch the process. The whole process was predicted to be completed by 4-5 days. On the same day, 5 groups of student came to the spot. As part of their journalistic training facilitated by ACF, they came to cover the process and interviewed the actors.

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Press Review for December 2007

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Tide flood threat still occurs in December. BMG predicted that the water level can reach 2.2 meter on December 8th – 12th 2007. Meanwhile tide flood in Muara Baru Penjaringan has cause economic flow decreasing. It also disconnects distribution flow to Fishery Port. Massive rain has caused water pool everywhere and traffic jam as result. Even though rain season has coming, many kelurahan has not conduct flood anticipation, this fact has irritate the Governor, Fauzi Bowo. Jakarta’s buffer area, Tangerang is surrounded by flood. Twenty areas were inundated.

Outside of Jakarta, flood hit North and South Bandung, Jambi, East Aceh Timur, and Gorontalo. In another part of Java Island, flood hit various areas in Central Java and East Java. In Central Java, flood hit tens houses in Gunung Kidul and killed 71 people in Karanganyar. Flood also hit Solo, Sukoharjo, Sragen, Pati, Blora, and Grobogan. In East Java, flood hit Malang Regency up to 2 meter, Magetan, Jombang, Sidoarjo, Bojonegoro, Wonogiri, and Wonosobo.

Diarrheas again occur in various areas in Jakarta. Dirty water pool and difficulties to access clean water were blamed to be the cause. With rain season coming, the threat of dengue need to anticipated. Fatmawati Hospital has recorded 6.120 dengue patients in 2007, with 29 of them died. In Central Java, dengue has killed 217 people for 2007. This month, the news about Avian Influenza is very less. In Kalideres, bird are examined following the death of a citizen by Avian Influenza.

Earthquake also appears in low frequency. The news about earthquake came from North Sulawesi on December 4th 2007 with 6 RS and in East Nusa Tenggara on December 19th 2007 with 5.3 RS. Storm hit Kudus and Makasar. In Makasar, one person is dead and 79 of them died.

International news, Malaysia were reported to be hit by flood, killing 12 people and causing 20.000 people flee from their home.

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