City to build retention wall

The Jakarta Post

JAKARTA: Following the recent high tide that flooded parts of North Jakarta, city administration said it plans to build a new retention wall along the Muara Angke area.

"We need and will build soon a stronger and more permanent retention wall to keep the rising sea level from flooding settlement area," Vice Governor Fauzi Bowo told newsportal Beritajakarta.com on Sunday.

Last week houses in four neighborhood units in Muara Angke were flooded after the high tide smashing an existing retention wall.

Pluit subdistrict head Sugiharjo Timbo is responsible for the area and he said his office had installed four water pumps to help pump out floodwater.

But Timbo said more water pumps were obviously needed.

"We are still trying to find private companies that would cooperate with us in supplying more pumps," he said.

The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency declared the recent high tide in Muara Angke was not out of the ordinary.