InfoSAWIT, ACEH SINGKIL – Head of Village of Gampong Takal Pasir, Sub district of Singkil, District of Aceh Singkil, Rabidin Limbong was sorry for the loss that the villagers should suffer because of the flood that occurred for seven times in a row since September to December 2023. He thought, the people next to the river side would get the most impacts for four months.

One crucial impact is about smallholders replanting program (SRP). The people’s plantations that got SRP are now dead after the flood took place in theirs. Limbong also told the flood hit thousand houses of the people, vanished their animals, destroyed hundred hectares of agricultural areas from SRP.

“Half of SRP should be dead because of the flood. This is fatal and the people got losses,” Limbong said, as InfoSAWIT from AJNN.

SRP has been running for four years and it was divided into two groups within special areas in Village of Takal Pasir that covered 193 hectares. Unfortunately, about 96 hectares of the program should come to an end because of the flood.

Meanwhile, Head of Village of Pea Bumbung, Sarbaini got the same thing. His village was in flood for four months. He asked for the local government to dig up the river around the areas. He thought, the river was too shallow and could be the cause of the flood namely when rain fell down for a night long.

“The river overflowed and flood came. That is why, it needs to dig up the river as prevention to minimize the future risks,” Sarbini said. (T2)