IPOH: Penggunaan pam air Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS) dilihat secara efektif berupaya menyelesaikan masalah banjir genang atau banjir termenung yang masih melanda di beberapa tempat di Perak.

Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad berkata, keberkesanan penggunaan pam itu bagaimanapun bergantung kepada paras air sungai bagi air banjir yang dialurkan.

"Semalam saya tengok Yang Berhormat Azman Noh (Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Pengkalan Baharu) tunjukkan bagaimana JPS menyedut air daripada kawasan banjir keluar. Keberkesanannya bergantung pula kepada sungai yang kita masukkan air itu.

"Kalau air sungai itu pun tinggi maka tak ada maknalah. Tetapi sekarang nampak yang (kaedah) itu efektif, ia sedut air daripada kawasan banjir keluar ke sungai sebelum mengalir ke laut," katanya.

Saarani berkata demikian pada sidang media Program MESRA Hari Bertemu Pelanggan (HBP) Siri 8 Tahun 2025 di Stadium Indera Mulia, di sini hari ini. Hadir sama, Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri, Datuk Ahmad Suaidi Abdul Rahim.

Sebanyak 185 aduan diterima sepanjang program berkenaan.

Saarani berkata, kerajaan negeri sentiasa bersiap siaga bagi menghadapi gelombang kedua banjir akibat Monsun Timur Laut (MTL) ketika ini, termasuk menerusi Pusat Kawalan Operasi Bencana Negeri (SDCC) yang diaktifkan bermula November lalu.

Katanya, SDCC yang beroperasi di Bangunan Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri (SUK) Perak membolehkan agensi yang menguruskan bencana di peringkat daerah berhubung terus secara masa nyata dengan pusat kawalan bagi penyelarasan agihan bantuan serta operasi menyelamat mangsa dikoordinasikan.

Sementara itu, Ahmad Suaidi berkata, SDCC yang diaktifkan sewaktu gelombang pertama banjir November lalu efektif memantau dan menyelaraskan pergerakan aset bagi operasi menyelamat membabitkan pelbagai agensi.

"Kekangan sebelum ini, aset ada di daerah lain tetapi berlaku (banjir) di daerah lain. Jadi paling penting adalah melihat bagaimana untuk koordinasikan ia dengan pemantauan Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (NADMA) dan pasukan daripada SUK.

"Alhamdulillah untuk banjir baru-baru ini kita berjaya menggerakkan pasukan daripada Angkata Tentera Malaysia (ATM) dan pasukan daripada Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) untuk membantu," katanya.

Ahmad Suaidi berkata, SDCC Perak membabitkan koordinasi sumber manusia seramai 5,676 anggota, aset serta logistik dengan 374 pikap; 97 ambulans; 251 lori; 251 bot; 1,491 jaket keselamatan dan 4,418 khemah.

Sehingga petang ini, seramai 487 mangsa daripada 140 keluarga masih berlindung di enam pusat pemindahan sementara (PPS) seluruh Perak susulan banjir yang melanda tiga daerah iaitu Manjung, Hilir Perak, dan Bagan Datuk.

KUALA LUMPUR: The number of flood victims in Perak at temporary evacuation centres has decreased, while the number in Selangor has increased slightly by Monday evening (Dec 8) compared to Monday morning.

In PERAK, the total number of flood victims dropped to 487 people from 140 families who were still sheltered in six evacuation centres involving the districts of Hilir Perak, Manjung, and Bagan Datuk, compared to 613 people from 174 families on Monday morning.

All flood victims housed at these centres for the past three weeks have not been allowed to return home because their residences remain inundated.

Meanwhile, the secretariat also announced that the Dewan Serbaguna Kampung Sungai Rubana evacuation centres in Hutan Melintang, which housed 74 people from 19 families, were fully closed at 2:30pm on Monday (Dec 8).

In SELANGOR, the number of victims still at the evacuation centres were 51 people from nine families this evening, compared to 38 people from 12 families on Monday morning.

According to the Social Welfare Department Info Bencana website, the victims placed at the Dewan Serbaguna Komuniti Orang Asli Gombak evacuation centre are residents affected by a landslide incident caused by heavy rain in Kampung Orang Asli Batu 12, Gombak, last Wednesday (Dec 3). – Bernama

MIRI, Dec 8 — Long Ikang residents are fearful that the next episode of flooding during this monsoon period may see their longhouse swept into the Baram River just metres away, said Peter Kallang.

The chairman of non-governmental organisation SAVE Rivers claimed following a visit there that the second gabion wall built on the banks to prevent further erosion is compromised.

“We have a very dangerous and precarious situation at hand. Urgent action is necessary before the next flood triggers the erosion, which will sweep our home into the Baram River.

“We appeal to the authority to take immediate and permanent measures to resolve the problem,” he told The Borneo Post.

He said the second gabion wall was completed about a year ago at a cost of RM200,000, but has “proven to be as ineffective as the first one” constructed in the settlement.

Long Ikang, a Kenyah-Kayan settlement , is about a 40-minute boat ride downriver from Long Banyok.

Severe erosion over the past two decades along a 3.5km-stretch of the bank fronting the settlement has left one of the four longhouses there, the 10-door Kenyah longhouse Uma Kaeng, a mere three metres from the river’s edge.

Activist Peter Kallang, chairman of the NGO Save Rivers, said the second gabion wall built about a year ago along the riverbank to prevent further erosion was ineffective.

“Urgent action is necessary before the next flood triggers the erosion, which will sweep our home into the Baram River.

“We appeal to the authorities to take immediate and permanent measures to resolve the problem,” The Borneo Post reported him as saying.

Located about a 40-minute boat ride downriver from Long Banyok in Miri, the Kenyah-Kayan settlement has been battling severe erosion for the past two decades along a 3.5km stretch of the riverbank.

One of its four longhouses – the 10-door Kenyah longhouse Uma Kaeng – now stands barely 3m from the river’s edge. A decade ago, it was more than 15m away.

The residents also had to relocate their 42-year-old chapel 2km inland after it nearly slipped into the river.