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The 2021 South Kalimantan floods were a series of floods in the
South Kalimantan South Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Selatan) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is the smallest province in Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory of Borneo. The provincial capital was Banjarmasin until 15 February 2022 when it wa ...
province of Indonesia. It was the worst flood to affect the region in the last ten years, and the first major flood in the past fifty years. Most of the region affected had never experienced such a flood before. There were 15 deaths while many are missing. Landslides were also triggered by the floods. The most affected regions were Banjarmasin, Central Hulu Sungai Regency, and
Tanah Laut Regency Tanah Laut Regency is one of the regencies in the Indonesian province of South Kalimantan. The area is 3,631.35 km2, and the population at the 2010 Census was 296,333; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2017) is 334,328. The capital is ...
. More than 100,000 people were evacuated.
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had begun distributing aid to victims of the flooding.


Causes

The flood is thought to have been caused by high rainfall intensity, which triggered river overflows that began on January 9, 2021. However, the Director of
Indonesian Forum for Environment The Indonesian Forum for Living Environment (''Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia'', WALHI) is an Indonesian environmental non-governmental organization, which is part of the Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) network. WALHI was founded in ...
for South Kalimantan, Dwi Cahyono, argued that the flood was caused by
environmental degradation Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment (biophysical), environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; an ...
in the form of hundreds of mining holes that were not reclaimed and nearly fifty percent of the 3.7 million hectares of land were controlled by mining and oil palm companies.


Criticism of government response

Indonesian netizens criticized lack of coverage on national media about the floods. President
Joko Widodo Joko Widodo (; born 21 June 1961), popularly known as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is the 7th and current president of Indonesia. Elected in July 2014, he was the first Indonesian president not to come from an elite ...
posted on social media that Indonesia currently struggles against two natural disasters; 2021 Sumedang landslides and
2021 West Sulawesi earthquake An earthquake struck Majene Regency in the province of West Sulawesi, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on 15 January 2021, at 02:28 WITA (18:28 UTC), with a moment magnitude of 6.2. This earthquake was felt as far away as Makassar, the ...
, but did not mention the floods. Consequently, hashtag "#KalselJugaIndonesia" (South Kalimantan is also Indonesia) trended on Twitter as protest of government's lack of coverage. Environment activists and opposition argued that floods happening in South Kalimantan were the result of uncontrolled and unsustainable investments resulting destruction of the nature, and criticized the provincial government that blamed the floods solely on weather. Later president post a video on the disaster that he already received direct report from South Kalimantan governor,
Sahbirin Noor Sahbirin Noor is an Indonesian politician and current the governor of South Kalimantan. He vice governor Rudy Resnawan rebounded after having initially looked poised to lose the gubernatorial election in 2015. Noor has taken the initiative to reha ...
and urged all government personnel to provide aids necessary for the victims especially inflatable boat. Later, president visited the affected region directly on 18 January together with regent of Banjar Regency.


See also

* List of natural disasters in Indonesia


References

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