South Jakarta City Park and Forestry Sub-agency has managed 1,817 trees during November-December 4, 2024.

Sub-agency Head, Djauhar Arifien said those trees were divided into five categories namely light, medium, heavy, cut, and fall.

"We deployed two until 10 Green Taskforce personnel to manage one tree in every sub-district in South Jakarta. We also have teams to accelerate the tree handling," he said, Thursday (12/5).

He detailed that there were 297 trees in light category, 1,035 in medium, and 343 in heavy category.

"73 trees were cut and we also evacuated 69 fallen trees," he added.

Djauhar explained that the trees were examined by identifying all wilted or dead plant materials or organs, such as leaves, twigs, branches, stems, shoots and fruit before being managed.

"We run the identification to know the real condition to determine what anticipative step to be taken," he continued.

During recent weather, that is rain accompanied with strong wind, the sub-agency keeps intensifying prone to fall tree handling.

"The handling is run based on ours and resident's monitoring or report in every sub-district or application provided by the government," he said.

He appeals the resident to be careful during rainy season by not taking shelter under the trees.