102 fire cases happened in North Jakarta within January-June 2017 period. It was lower than the same period last year that reached to 122 cases.

North Jakarta Fire Handling and Rescue Sub-dept. Head, Satriardi Gunawan said, citizen awareness to prevent fire accident is increased.

"We socialize intensively to citizen how to prevent and handle fire," he said, Friday (7/7).

He mentioned, there are 12 fire cases occurred in January, 9 fire cases in February, 14 fire cases in March, 17 fire cases in April, 23 fire cases in May, and 27 fire cases in June.

He added that most of fire case was caused by short circuit.

"Material loss due to fire accident reaches around Rp 31.3 billion," he closed.