Sunday 05 February 2007

Purwanti Sri Widyastuti
Lecturer at Civil Engineering Department Muhammadiyah University of Solo
Alumnus Water, Engineering, and Development Centre, Loughborough University, England

Jakarta’s flood, February 2007
Routinity of flood disaster, regular schedule
Complex problem
Paralyzed businees and economy activities
Disturbance to telecommunication infrastructure
Disease dissemination
Clean water disturbance
Broken off electric service
suffer a financial loss
billion rupiahs to recover the flood impact
flood as nature phenomenon
Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM, 2006)
Interaction result among nature phenomenon with environment, social process, and economy process
Illegal logging
Water absorbant area
River line area
Puncak, Cipanas, Bogor, West Java
Multidisciplinary approach
Drainage
Dam
Meterology, hidrology
Critical land rehabilitation
Integrated effort to solving flood problem
Planology aspect
Integrated programme

Original source: Together We Maintain Flood Disaster