“ Floods inundate 65 Families' Houses in Tapin, South Kalimantan “

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia -- The intensity of heavy rainfall in the last few days has caused a
tributary of the Tapin River to overflow. As a result, houses belonging to 65 families were
flooded in Taibah, RT. 04 Banua Halat Kanan Village, North Tapin District, Tapin District,
South Kalimantan.
"The impact of the flood that submerged residents' settlements caused the daily activities of
residents to be disrupted because some of the residents' houses and road access were flooded,"
said the head of the Tapin Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Said Abdul Nasir in
the capital of Tapin Regency, Rantau, quoted by Antara. Between, Saturday (3/4).

He said the public must remain vigilant about the current flood conditions because they are
afraid that the floods will continue to rise. The last condition was on Friday (3/4) at around 16.00
WITA, the flood height was about 10 to 50 centimeters. While the Tapin River Basin had a
status of one alert and for the Tapin dam upstream of the river it was still in normal condition.

"Alhamdulillah, Tapin Dam is safe, the water is still at an elevation of 144.69, we are still
holding it not overflowing. The last few days the water level rise has been quite high," said
Commitment Officer (PPK) Amir Rahman.

Meanwhile in the Barabai City area, HST Regency, floods also occurred due to the overflow of
the Batang Alai River, as well as high rainfall in the upstream area / Meratus Mountains area.
Formerly, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) issued an alert
warning of the potential for extreme weather in Indonesia for a week from April 3-9, 2021.
"BMKG predicts the potential for extreme weather in the form of heavy-very heavy rain, strong
winds and high waves in the next week in some parts of Indonesia," said BMKG Deputy for
Meteorology Guswanto in Jakarta, Saturday.
BMKG as the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center (TCWC) Jakarta detected the presence of two
tropical cyclone seeds, namely tropical cyclone 90S in the Indian Ocean southwest of Sumatra
and tropical cyclone 99S in the Sawu Sea, East Nusa Tenggara.

The intensity of the two Tropical Cyclone Seeds tends to strengthen in the next 24 hours with
movement away from Indonesian territory. Indirectly, the presence of these cyclone seeds can
contribute significantly to the increase in atmospheric lability and the growth of rain clouds in
some parts of Indonesia, besides that it can encourage an increase in wind speed which has an
impact on increasing wave heights in some Indonesian waters.

So that within a week the potential for moderate to heavy rain is predicted to occur in the
provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, Bengkulu, Lampung, South Sumatra, Banten,
DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, DI Yogyakarta, East Java, North Kalimantan, Central
Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Maluku and Papua.

Then the potential for very heavy rain is predicted in South Sulawesi, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara,
East Nusa Tenggara.