Floods that hit the south-west region of Aceh until Sunday (13/12) continue to expand. In Aceh Barat, floods struck 185 villages in 12 sub-districts. As a result, at least 10,774 houses were submerged and thousands of people had to evacuate to a temporary evacuation site.
Data received from West Aceh Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Sunday (13/12) mentioned, the number of refugees in this district from 12 districts has reached 37 586 inhabitants. They evacuate to temporary shelters that avoid flooding, such as in mosques, houses, offices and others.
BPBD also has placed a unit of public kitchen car at the point of refuge in the village Pasie Mesjid, District Johan Pahlawan.
In December, infrastructure damage caused by floods in 12 sub-districts, among others, Alue Jerneh bridge oprit on both sides of Seumantok Village, Pante Ceureumen sub-district was completely cut off, the landslide at the intersection of Tangkeh Village and Paya Meugendrang, East Woyla District, several ambles and 20 bridges meter in Blang Dalam, Woyla Timur, broke up.
Head of Field of Logistics and Logistics of BPBD Aceh Barat, Endi Alfian explained, due to the flood that hit until now, many villages in this regency are isolated due to river flood and high rainfall.
Until now, his team is still difficult to navigate to an isolated location to evacuate because the weather to date has not been supported. Nevertheless, his team is still exploring the location that is considered the worst and isolated.
Mentioned, there are two isolated sub-districts, namely 12 villages in Krueng Bhee Sub-district, East Woyla District and 7 villages in Woyla Teunom. The isolation is due to the road to Paya Baru landslide. In addition, and the area is the very end so they are confined.
Then, as many as 11 villages in Sungai Mas subdistrict were also isolated due to landslides that occurred in Kajeng Village. Rescue teams are very difficult to enter this wiloayah, let alone flood in the interior is increasingly high.
However, it will continue to try to penetrate that isolation. "As difficult as anything, we are still exploring inland flooded in order to provide help to the community," he said.
Heavy rain that continues to flood Aceh Barat since Saturday (12/12) night at around 23:00 Wib also caused floods and landslides in Gampong (village) Paya Meugendrang, East Woyla.
As a result, the sub-district road that connects 25 villages in Woyla Timur and Woyla mothers can not be crossed. In addition, one unit of Paya Meugendrang residents were damaged by mud volcanoes.
Not only the landslide that happened to Paya Meugendrang residents, the flood eventually also spread to other areas, as stated by the East Woyla community leaders, Naswandi to the Analysis, Sunday (13/12).
He explained, on Saturday (12/12) at around 02:00 pm, fallen mountain rocks damage the road.
As a result of the flood, at least 30 families of the head of this village also had to evacuate to the home of relatives. In fact, a few days ago the flood had receded.
"Just two days of relief, now we have to flee again," he said.
According to him, they really need the government's attention to the handling of isolated people due to stuck in landslides or floods. Until now, residents have not received any assistance from the government. People have to share food to survive