saco-indonesia.com, Setelah sempat naik sampai menembus 230 centimeter atau siaga I pada pukul 00.20 WIB dini hari , ketinggian air di Bendung Katulampa, Bogor, sejak pukul 08.00 WIB pagi kembali turun. Kini ketinggian air telah menjadi 100 sentimeter dengan status siaga III, Kamis (30/01).

Pasalnya, menurunnya tinggi muka air sungai Ciliwung di Bendung Katulampa, dikarenakan wilayah Bogor, khususnya kawasan Puncak, tidak lagi diguyur hujan seperti hari sebelumnya Rabu (29/01).

"Cuaca hari ini di kawasan Puncak dan Bendung Katulampa mendung. Ketinggian air juga sudah surut 100 sentimeter dengan status siaga III," kata Kepala Pengawas Bendung Katulampa Andi Sudirman, Kamis (30/01).

Meski demikian Andi juga telah mengimbau kepada warga Jakarta, khususnya yang tinggal di bantaran sungai Ciliwung agar terus waspada. "Karena tidak menutup kemungkinan air akan kembali meningkat, karena cuaca mendung dan seperti akan kembali turun hujan," ungkapnya.

Seperti yang telah diketahui, dikarenakan hujan tak kunjung reda sejak Rabu (29/01) dini hari hingga malam, ketinggian air sungai Ciliwung di Bendung Katulampa cepat merangkak naik, dan juga sempat menembus rekor tahun 2014 ini dengan ketinggian 230 centimeter dan telah terjadi sekitar pukul 00.20 WIB dini hari, Kamis (30/01).

Kenaikan itu telah terjadi hanya berselang beberapa menit, pada pukul 22.00 WIB masih 130 centimeter (siaga III), kemudian pada pukul 22.39 WIB 160 cm (siaga II) dan pukul 22.50 WIB naik ke 180 centimeter dan pukul 23.00 WIB ketinggian air 190 cm (siaga II) dan pada pukul 23.05 WIB naik kembali telah menjadi 200 cm (siaga I), dan pukul 23.27 WIB tinggi muka air menyentuh 220 centimeter (siaga I) dan terakhir puncaknya pada pukul 00.20 WIB air naik hingga 230 centimeter (siaga I).

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.