A hearing scheduled at the Central Jakarta District Court for the class action lawsuit against the Governor Anies Baswedan’s Provincial Government over poor flood management has been postponed due to the deluge that inundated the capital yesterday.
In the lawsuit, 243 Jakarta citizens demanded IDR42 billion (US$3 million) in financial reparations for the New Year’s Day floods in the capital.
The Greater Jakarta Area, as well as parts of Banten and West Java, saw the most intense rainfall since 2007 on New Year’s Eve, which continued well into New Year’s Day. According to BNPB data, 67 people were killed by floods and landslides while tens of thousands were evacuated from their homes.
The Central Jakarta District Court, located on Jalan Bungur Raya in Kemayoran, was inaccessible yesterday due to flooding in the area.
“Yes, it was postponed. We couldn’t get to the courthouse. All of Bungur, Kemayoran were flooded,” Azas Tigor Nainggolan, an advocate representing the plaintiffs, told CNN Indonesia.
“We asked for the hearing to be postponed to next Monday, but there is no answer yet.”
Central Jakarta District Court spokesman Makmur confirmed that all hearings were postponed yesterday due to the flood.
Yesterday, Jakarta saw the worst flooding since the deadly New Year’s Day deluge with large areas of the capital, as well as satellite cities Bekasi and Tangerang, inundated following heavy rainfall that began the evening before. Anies said at least 200 RW (community units, each comprising several neighborhoods) were affected. There have been no reports of casualties thus far.
The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) says yesterday’s floods in Jakarta were caused by rainfall that was much less intense than that which caused the floods on New Year’s Day.
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