Communal Based Flood Mitigation Measures in Bandung City

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the Biophore Programme, a flood mitigation effort to reduce disaster risk that was carried out in Bandung-the capital of West Java province, Indonesia-by the local government in 2013. The objective of the program was to reduce urban flood by seeking to see water infiltrate, thereby causing run-off to diminish and thus reducing floods.

This paper states that due to the limited open space available because of the Biophore Programme, the approach should be coupled with rainwater harvesting at household level in order to achieve effective results. It argues that a small investment at the household scale could prevent an avoidable disaster such as urban floods. The proposed method is now under development in Bandung city to mitigate urban flood and this paper describes the application of the technology in Bandung city as well as its application in the household scale.