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        "id": 1240134,
        "msgid": "uncontrolled-erosion-deplored-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-02-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Uncontrolled erosion deplored",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Uncontrolled erosion deplored The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Last year nearly 200 tons of land per hectare was washed away in the Bogor and Cianjur regencies, which serve as water catchment areas for Jakarta. Legal Aid institute (LBH) Cianjur chapter special division head Iwan Permana said the figures meant that every year, about 501,800 tons of mud entered the Ciliwung river and Cisadane river, which made the rivers shallow.",
        "content": "<p>Uncontrolled erosion deplored<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>Last year nearly 200 tons of land per hectare was washed away<br>\nin the Bogor and Cianjur regencies, which serve as water<br>\ncatchment areas for Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Legal Aid institute (LBH) Cianjur chapter special division<br>\nhead Iwan Permana said the figures meant that every year, about<br>\n501,800 tons of mud entered the Ciliwung river and Cisadane<br>\nriver, which made the rivers shallow.<\/p>\n<p>It all happened because of the uncontrolled development of<br>\nland in the area, he told Antara.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least 54 luxury real estate and housing complexes<br>\nin the Bogor and Cianjur regencies, even though the areas have<br>\nlong been designated as catchment areas for low-land Jakarta. The<br>\nfirst regulation was issued by former president Sukarno in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was also stipulated in a joint ministerial decree<br>\ninvolving the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Public<br>\nWorks (now the Ministry of Resettlement and Regional<br>\nInfrastructure) and the Ministry of Forestry.<\/p>\n<p>And also in a decree issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs,<br>\ninstruction letters to the West Java Governor and the enacting of<br>\nseveral bylaws.<\/p>\n<p>\"But they failed to control the construction of luxury<br>\nbuildings in the area,\" Iwan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the floods that hit the capital had long been<br>\npredicted and it was acknowledged that the destruction of the<br>\nupper reaches of the Ciliwung river and Cisadane river would mean<br>\nthey overflowed.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Resettlement and Regional Infrastructure Soenarno<br>\nsaid on Wednesday that the regional autonomy law could hinder<br>\nefforts to seek a comprehensive solution to Jakarta's flood<br>\nproblems as a separate administration might have its own<br>\ninterests at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Cianjur, for example, could receive around Rp 2 billion a year<br>\nfor issuing the building permits.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/uncontrolled-erosion-deplored-1447893297",
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