ASIATODAY.ID, JAKARTA – Indonesia will experience a series of climate disasters throughout 2023. Floods are the most dominant.
The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) noted that there were five provinces that reported the most flood disasters throughout 2023.
Head of BNPB Suharyanto revealed that the five provinces were West Java with 109 incidents; North Sumatra with 98 incidents; Aceh with 95 incidents; Central Java 93 incidents; and West Sumatra 72 incidents.
“Aceh will be the province with the highest number of affected victims in 2023. The number will reach 1 million people,” he said at Graha BNPB, Friday, January 12 2024.
Then Central Java became the province with the number of affected victims of 896,000, followed by West Java 471,000, then South Kalimantan 329,000 and Central Kalimantan 270,000.
For your information, throughout 2022 BNPB recorded that 1,531 flood disasters had occurred with the number of affected people reaching up to 5.7 million people. Then, in 2023, the number of floods will increase to 1,166 and a total of 4.2 million people will be affected.
Based on BNPB data, throughout 2014-2023, floods became a frequent disaster, namely 8,326 times, followed by tornadoes 8,563 times, and landslides up to 7,423 times.
Meanwhile, throughout 2023, disasters will still be dominated by wet hydrometeorology such as floods, landslides and extreme weather. Apart from that, forest and land fires also dominated, namely 1,802 incidents.
On the other hand, he also outlined the five provinces with the highest number of damaged houses due to disasters in 2023, namely West Java 7,998, East Java 3,617 damage, Central Java 2,767 damage, South Sulawesi 2,455 damage and Aceh 1,639 damage.
Even so, he saw that Indonesia also recorded a decrease in the number of dead and missing victims every year, namely in 2021 there were 8.2 million affected victims with 815 dead and missing victims.
Then, in 2022 there will be as many as 6 million victims affected with the number of dead and missing as many as 895 people. Furthermore, in 2023 there will be 8.8 million victims affected with the number of missing and dead victims reaching 295 people.
According to him, public awareness of disaster mitigation has increased as seen from impacts such as damage to houses and decreased deaths and disappearances.
Not only that, Suharyanto also said that in 2024 there will be six priority provinces for forest and land fire disasters, namely Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan.
He said anticipation would still be carried out in other provinces apart from the six priority provinces. Meanwhile, geological disasters such as earthquakes cannot be predicted.
According to him, anticipating geological disasters will be carried out by preparing technology and providing information to the public regarding the steps that must be taken if an earthquake occurs.
Apart from that, Suharyanto said that El Nino is not predicted to occur in 2024 so that drought is not predicted to occur like in 2023.
“In 2024 there won’t be an El Nino, so we predict or predict that the BMKG won’t have a very long summer so forest and land fires are predicted not to be as intense as in 2023, but there will definitely be some but we are still preparing for them,” concluded Suharyanto. (AT Network)
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