Cianjur Regent Asks Earthquake Victims Whose Houses Have Not Been Recorded To Report To Villages

The Regent of Cianjur, West Java, Herman Suherman, when he met face-to-face with earthquake victims who built their houses independently which collapsed due to the earthquake. (ANTARA

CIANJUR - The Regent of Cianjur, West Java, Herman Suherman, asked earthquake victims whose houses have not been recorded or have been damaged again, to submit changes through the village or liaison services in each region. "I still get a lot of reports and questions from residents directly or through social media regarding houses that have not been recorded or experienced changes to damage, can still be submitted and will enter stage IV," he said in Cianjur as reported by Antara, Sunday, May 7. Herman explained that currently, out of tens of thousands of victims of the Cianjur earthquake who had disbursed aid ranging from stages I, II and III, it reached 95 percent or 56,687 people. While the rest are still in process and have received the passbook. Residents whose houses were damaged by the earthquake and have not been recorded or received a savings book can contact the local village for re-data collection to be included in the list of recipients of stage IV because it guarantees that all earthquake victims will receive it. "The local government guarantees that all victims of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake Monday (21/11/2022) will receive housing repair assistance in accordance with the damage. If there are still those who have not been recorded and have problems, they can contact the village apparatus and the Cianjur BPBD," he said. There are still many residents who have not been included in the list of recipients of housing construction assistance from the government, complaining about the slow handling of reports they have submitted to the village and the liaison office at the Cianjur Regency Government, so they want to get certainty. "I have been going back and forth to the village and the service, but I definitely haven't got an answer because during the data collection I was still riding at my sister's house in another sub-district. If I went to the village there was already data collection, but I couldn't confirm going to stage IV," said a resident of Cijedil Village, Cugenang District, Iman Sulaeman. The same thing was said by residents of earthquake victims in Benjod Village, Gasol and a number of other villages in Cugenang District, they had not received confirmation, such as most other residents who had carried out construction because they submitted changes to the damage.

"Initially, our house was moderately damaged, but after several aftershocks most of the walls of the house collapsed and submitted changes to severe damage. It has been entered the list, but has not received the savings book, he said stage IV," said Benjod resident Ayi.