The Ministry Of PUPR Distributions Clean Water And Sanitation To 60 Refugee Locations For Earthquake Victims Cianjur

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) continues to send sanitation and clean water infrastructure assistance to help refugees during an emergency.

Facilities and emergency responses have been distributed to 60 refugee camps.

The delivery of infrastructure and distribution to refugee camps has started since Wednesday night, November 23, which was immediately released by the Minister of PUPR Basuki Hadimuljono.

PUPR Minister Basuki Hadimuljono said that during the emergency response period, the most important thing was the availability of clean infrastructure and sanitation facilities for daily needs for victims and refugees.

"The Ministry of PUPR is very focused on clean water, especially in refugee camps. We also use the nearest drinking water treatment plant (IPA) and IPA mobile to supply clean water, especially to evacuation posts," he said in an official statement, Friday, December 2.

Meanwhile, Expert Staff of the Minister of PUPR for Technology, Industry and Environment as well as Spokesperson (Jubir) of the Ministry of PUPR Endra S. Atmawidjaja said that sanitation and clean water assistance was gradually distributed by the Ministry of PUPR to refugees.

"Based on data from the West Java Regional Settlement Infrastructure Center (BPPW), a total of 323 emergency facilities and responses have been distributed to 60 evacuation posts," said Spokesperson Endra.

The facilities and infrastructure that have been dredged consists of 142 units of General Hidden, 20 units of Tenda 4x6, 4 units of Tenda 6x12, 93 units of Portable WC, 18 units of Water Tank Cars, 1 unit of Cabinet Toilet Car, 1 unit of Tinja Vakum, 2 units of IPA Mobile, 1 unit of 6 m3 dump Truck, 1 unit of Truck Arm Roll, 10 units of Septic Tank, and 30 bins of Waste.

Delivery of sanitation and clean water infrastructure assistance continued until Thursday, December 1, namely the addition of 55 General Hidran with a total of 57 personnel deployed.

In addition, said Endra, the Ministry of PUPR has also dispatched a special team to conduct a survey and record the number of houses damaged due to the impact of the earthquake in Cianjur Regency, West Java.

"Data collection utilizes information technology innovation for Disaster-affected House (Rutena) applications," he explained.

In this data collection process, the Directorate General of Housing of the Ministry of PUPR also involved BNPB, Geological Agency, BMKG, Cianjur Regency Housing and Settlement Service, Field Facilitators (TFL) of the BSPS Program, volunteers and students recruited to record houses.

They will be trained to use the Rutuna application first before taking to the field.

The survey team in the field will be equipped with black hat and yellow vest attributes with the PUPR Ministry logo.

The team will record and verify the house using a house application affected by the disaster so that data on the number that needs assistance can be obtained and those that need to be relocated to a safe place.