BPBD Records 2 Damaged Houses And 91 Other Threatened Land Shiftation In Cianjur

Joint officers monitored the condition of residents' houses that were damaged and threatened by land shifts that continued to spread in Cianjur Tuesday, 4/11/2025. (ANTARA)

The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) deployed officers to collect data on damage caused by land shifts in Cibanteng Village, Sukaresmi District, Cianjur Regency.

Secretary of BPBD Cianjur Regency Asep Sudrajat said that the land shift of the two heads of families (KK) consisted of six people who were forced to evacuate to anticipate unwanted things and 91 other houses were threatened.

"We are still waiting for definite data from the team that has been sent to the field, to collect data in Cibuntu Village, Cibanteng Village, which has experienced a shift in land. Temporary data for the two families to evacuate because their houses were damaged," he said in Cianjur, Tuesday, as reported by Antara.

Extreme weather that still hit all areas of Cianjur, he continued, triggered natural disasters such as tornadoes, fallen trees, landslides, and land shifts in a number of sub-districts and communities, especially in the northern and southern regions, were advised to be vigilant.

His party has alerted officers and volunteers to carry out surveillance and monitoring every day from north to south, immediately coordinating and handling quickly when a disaster occurs, including evacuating residents.

Cibanteng Village Head Muryani said the land shift had been seen since the past week, but continued to expand in the last two days, causing two houses to be heavily damaged and dozens more threatened.

Damage was seen on the walls of houses and floors experiencing longer cracks and extending to other houses, even the soil in the yard collapsed deeper, especially when heavy rains fell again with old intensity.

"Two houses were heavily damaged by Warsa and Imas, where the walls and floors of the house were cracked more and wider, so the two heads of families fled to their relatives' houses," he said.

Not only destroying residential areas, land shifts also caused damage to the 20-meter village road, where roads with concrete casts on the bottom began to erode so that they were threatened with collapse.

He explained that all areas of Cibanteng Village are prone to landslides, so residents are asked to always be vigilant and ready, including immediately evacuating when they see natural signs of a disaster.

"We ask residents to carry out joint surveillance and evacuate immediately when the land shift continues to spread, because it can threaten landslides, especially when it rains heavily with long intensity," he said.