Jakarta – Three nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have threatened to destroy illegal villas built in the Ciater water catchment areas if the Subang government fails to do so.

The three NGOs are identified as the Lake, Forest and Nature Conservation Activists (Arindha), the Economy and People's Development Foundation (Yapeknas), and the Subang University Graduates' Alliance Activist Movement.

They claimed 59 hectares of the water catchment area of the state plantation firm PTPN VIII in Ciater had significantly degraded.

"In the dry season, people lack water and in the rainy season, there are floods," Boy Garna Abdullah, Arindha chairman, said. "Before the establishment of the villas, the catchment areas worked well to control the flooding."