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Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources
Bahlil Lahadalia
report to the President of the Republic of Indonesia
Prabowo Subianto
related to handling
electricity
in areas affected by floods and landslides in Sumatra.
He targets electricity in a number of areas in Aceh and North Sumatra to be restored tomorrow.
“Earlier I reported to the President, God willing, tomorrow night the electricity in North Sumatra, Central Tapanuli, South Tapanuli, then Sibolga will be on and gradually it will start to improve,” said Bahlil at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Thursday (4/12).
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He explained the progress of electricity restoration in Aceh, where the Arun PLTG with a capacity of 200 MW which was previously extinguished due to the Sutet network being damaged due to flooding has returned to operation.
“God willing, electricity will be running tomorrow night, Saturday at the latest,” he said.
Then, Bahlil also said that electricity in Central Tapanuli had also been turned on, although it was not yet completely normal.
“Then for Tapteng, since last night it has started to light up, but it’s not optimal yet. So maybe tomorrow night, at the latest Saturday it will be possible. Sibolga was lit up well yesterday,” he said.
Flash floods and landslides hit a number of areas on the island of Sumatra.
BNPB reported that the number of victims who died in this disaster increased to 836 people as of Thursday (4/12) afternoon.
“I report that as of this afternoon the number of fatalities has increased to 836 people,” said Head of the BNPB Disaster Data, Information and Communication Center Abdul Muhari in a press conference.
In detail, in Aceh it was reported that there were 325 deaths, in North Sumatra 311 deaths were recorded and in West Sumatra there were 200 deaths.
Meanwhile, there were 170 missing victims in Aceh, 127 in North Sumatra and 221 in West Sumatra.
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