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The Jakarta Post. Readers Forum. Wes. 9 Januari 2013. 1.23 PM
Garbage and Flooding in Jakarta
The rainy season is the nemesis of any Jakarta governor. In the early 1970s, Governor Ali Sadikin always urged regent regents, district heads, community unit heads and neighbor unit heads in Jakarta, as well as all residents, to clean their drainage system. Gutters and drainage canals should be free from plastic garbage, the foul stuff that clogs drainage systems. He personally went to the most outlying area in Greater Jakarta to help clean gutters and drainage systems.
In 2012, Governor Fauzi Bowo Succeded ib building two flood canals and was about to build a third to alleviate heavy flooding. He even had to admit that it was a king-size job to free Jakarta from flooding.
In 2013, Joko Widodo should use the media to constantly educate his citizens. Garbage is piled high in the vicinity of any market in Jakarta. Garbage collectors are working their finger to the bone. Drainage canals are used as garbage dump by ignorant Jakarta citizens. Rivers are full of plastic garbage. If Jakarta citizens continue to be ignorant, they should not blame the city's authorities for their flooded city and flooded underpasses.
Lynna Van Der Zee-Oehmke
Bogor, West Java.
