Wait For Phase IV Liquid Stimulant Funds, 1,700 Victims Of The Cianjur Earthquake Still Live In Emergency Shelters

Jokowi inspected one of the locations where the earthquake-affected residents was relocated on an area of 2.5 ha in Sirnagalih Village, Cilaku District, Cianjur, Wednesday, December 7, 2022. (Twitter Jokowi)

CIANJUR - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) noted that around 1,700 earthquake survivors with a magnitude (M) of 5.6 in a number of sub-districts in Cianjur still live in tents and emergency housing.

The Head of BPBD Cianjur, Asep Sukma Wijaya, said the victims were waiting for the disbursement of phase IV stimulant funds and relocation. This is because during the data collection in stages I, II and III, they submitted changes.

"So their data has just been entered as recipients of stage IV stimulant assistance because aftershocks often occur, causing damage to houses that were originally mild to moderate or from moderate to severe," he said in Cianjur, West Java, Tuesday, November 21, which was confiscated by Antara.

Most earthquake survivors who have lived in tents and emergency shelters for one year are still waiting for assistance from the central government which is expected to be disbursed by the end of the year, while around 190 others are waiting for the construction of the phase III relocation house to be completed.

Those who are still staying in the tents and emergency housing, said Asep, are spread across a number of sub-districts, with the highest number in Cugenang, Cianjur and Warungkodang sub-districts, so that his party targets that next year all survivors will return home.

"The progress of distributing stimulant funds for repairing houses damaged due to the earthquake as of September 8, 2023, has been received around 60,749 families from data on the total damaged houses as many as 83,747 units," he said.

This number, he said, was divided into three stages of distributing 8,316 families in stage one, 14,028 families in stage two, and 38,402 recipient families in stage three with stimulant funds that had been channeled to beneficiary accounts reaching Rp1,622,655,000,000.

"For the stages of one disbursement progress, 96.4 percent or 8,023 families have received, stage II has 13,357 families disbursed or 95.2 percent, and the third stage of disbursement has reached 98.7 percent or there is a total of 36,096 families," he said.

Meanwhile, earthquake survivors who still live in emergency housing in Cijedil Village, Cugenang District, hope to live in the house before the earthquake, even though they have to move to another area or a relocation house that is still being built.

"We hope to immediately fill the phase III relocation house in Cianjur District, such as earthquake survivors who have already moved. We have no choice because our village is in the red zone of the Cugenang fault, we have been waiting for a year," said earthquake survivor Imas (52).