Why Do Many People Live on River Banks?

Every human being has a need for survival. These needs are classified according to their importance.

Reporting from the official website of the Ministry of Cultural Education of the Republic of Indonesia, the types of groups are primary, secondary, and premium.

Primary needs are the first needs related to maintaining a decent life. Secondary needs are needs that are related to efforts to create or increase the happiness of life. While tertiary needs are needs related to efforts to create or increase self-esteem, prestige, or prestige.

One of the primary needs is a place to live or a house. Many people work hard to have a decent home to live in. However, there are also some who use makeshift land as houses, such as riverbanks.

The reason people live on the banks of the river

Why do many people live on the banks of the river? In ancient times, rivers were the source of life.

So that people live near rivers to get closer to water sources and it is easy to move places by boat. They are easy to fulfill basic needs.

But nowadays people live on the banks of the river because it is cheap. Even though the area along the river is not allowed to build buildings.

So it is illegal to build buildings on the banks of the river. Illegal buildings do not require permits and do not pay taxes. Quoted from the website of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing, the number of houses occupying riverbanks has resulted in the capacity of the river to accommodate the volume and flow of water decreases.

As a result, when the discharge and the volume of water that comes are large, it will damage the houses on the banks of the river.

The use of riverbank areas has actually been regulated in a Regulation of the Minister of Public Works which prohibits the construction of buildings for residential and business premises.

In addition, it is also prohibited to throw garbage, solid and/or liquid waste in riverbank areas. Riverbank areas should be used for activities that do not interfere with river flow and pose no risk, such as jogging tracks, recreation areas and city parks.