Heavy Rain, Flooding Predicted Throughout Indonesia in December

The Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics Agency forecast on Wednesday that heavy rain would fall nationwide in December.

“All regions will experience heavy rains in December but the heaviest rainfall is predicted to fall in January and February,” said Widada Sulistya, the director of the Center of Public Meteorology.

Sulistya said the heaviest of the rainfall would be experienced in most parts of Java, Sumatra, southern Kalimantan, northern Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua. In anticipation of flooding, the agency has been cooperating with institutions such as the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) and the Health Ministry’s Crisis Center.

“We have distributed data about the rainfall’s intensity to all places in the country so that they can anticipate the floods,” he said. He added that people should also be mindful of high waves in coastal areas during the rainy season.

“Wind movements and the rainy season also contribute to high waves, in some cases more than four meters.” He said the high waves will be more frequent in the waters off southern Java, southern Bali, western Sumatra, the western part of Kalimantan, Papua, Maluku and Sulawesi. 

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