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Jakarta to Normalize Rivers During Prolonged Dry Season

From Tempo · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Jakarta's regional government plans to normalize rivers during the prolonged dry season.
  • The normalization efforts will focus on areas where land acquisition for river expansion has been completed.
  • Despite predictions of a dry and long dry season due to El Nino, Jakarta is not currently facing a water crisis.

The Jakarta provincial government will undertake river normalization projects during the ongoing prolonged dry season, according to Governor Anies Baswedan. These efforts will commence when river water levels are low.

River normalization will proceed in several locations where the Water Resources Agency and the National Land Agency have already secured the necessary land. Baswedan also stated that the regional government has prepared contingency plans in case of a water crisis, though he emphasized that Jakarta is not currently experiencing one.

For Jakarta, once again, river normalization will be done when the water debit is small.

— Anies BaswedanGovernor of Jakarta explaining the timing of river normalization projects.

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has forecast that the 2026 dry season will be drier and longer than usual due to the El Nino phenomenon. The peak of the dry period is expected between July and September 2026.

Currently, a decrease in water levels has been observed in the Ciliwung River at several points in Bogor, West Java, including in the Babakan Pasar sub-district and at Bendung Katalumpa.

But currently Jakarta is not in a water crisis.

— Anies BaswedanGovernor of Jakarta addressing the current water supply situation.
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Originally published by Tempo in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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