saco-indonesia.com, Hingga saat ini banjir telah masih menggenani sebagian kawasan di Jakarta. Banjir kali ini lebih lama jika dibandingkan dengan banjir tahun lalu. Mantan Kapolda Metro Jaya Komjen (Purn) Noegroho Djajusman telah menilai butuh langkah ektrim untuk dapat mengatasi masalah banjir di Ibu Kota.

"Banjir di Jakarta saat ini, berbeda kondisi seperti ini saat jaman saya. Mungkin alamnya juga sudah berubah, pemanasan global. Kita butuh langkah ektrim untuk dapat menyudahi masalah banjir,"kata Noegroho saat berbincang, Kamis (6/2/2014).

Lebih lanjut dia juga berharap Pemprov DKI dapat memperhatikan daerah resapan baik di di hulu, maupun di hilir. "Saya lihat sudah ada pembongkaran sejumlah villa di daerah puncak beberapa waktu lalu. Jadi memang perlu dibuat tindakan tegas, namun tak hanya di wilayah hulu, juga di hilirnya," tegasnya.

Strategi blusukan yang telah diterapkan oleh Gubernur DKI Jakarta Joko Widodo (jokowi), lanjutnya, dianggap tidak akan mampu untuk mengatasi masalah banjir. "Jangan blusukan saja Jokowi, perlu langkah tegas,"tukasnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.