Flood crisis center nears completion<\/p>\n
Leony Aurora , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta<\/p>\n
Rain has started to fall regularly over the past several days,
\nbut the flood and natural disaster crisis center in the City
\nHall, Central Jakarta, is not yet up and running.<\/p>\n
Syarafuddin Arsyad, head of the alertness department at the
\nCity Public Order Agency, said on Tuesday that the center would
\nbe ready in January but did not specify an exact date.<\/p>\n
"It is a crisis management system that we are building, and it
\nmay take some time," he said. "We are still waiting for higher
\npolicies to be signed (to build a complete system), but in the
\nmean time we will run the operation here."<\/p>\n
Previously stationed on the second floor of Blok D in the City
\nHall, the crisis center is now located within the building of the
\nCrisis Prevention Agency.<\/p>\n
A long square wooden table stands in the middle of the room
\nwith some chairs around it. Several boxes of computers are piled
\nup against the wall.<\/p>\n
The crisis center has a 24-hour hotline at phone number 382-
\n2011, which can be used to receive reports from the public.<\/p>\n
"Nobody has reported any flooding so far. Jakarta is still
\nsafe for now," Arsyad said.<\/p>\n
The center will inform subdistrict heads of possible flooded
\nareas via cellular phones and two-way radios which have been
\nprovided for them and they, in turn, will alert residents.<\/p>\n
The city administration earlier claimed that it would be more
\nprepared for floods this year with the operation of the crisis
\ncenter and will apparently utilize more than 40,000 people from
\nvarious institutions in the event of a crisis.<\/p>\n
Data from the Meteorological and Geophysical Agency (BMG)
\nshowed that for the last three days, daily rainfall in Greater
\nJakarta ranged from 0.1 millimeters to 63 mm.<\/p>\n
BMG has forecast that the capital will see 26 to 28 rainy days
\nin January with precipitation of 50 mm to 100 mm per day. It
\ntakes only 75 mm of rainfall daily for three consecutive days to
\ninundated several areas.<\/p>",
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