Rebuilding Schools Damaged Due To The 2018 Earthquake, North Lombok Needs IDR 72 Billion Funds

Documentation - Condition of SMP Negeri 2 Tanjung in Tanjung District (ANTARA)

NTB - The government of North Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara, requires budget assistance from the central government of IDR 72 billion to repair schools damaged by the 2018 earthquake.

"There are 50 elementary and junior high schools that were damaged by the earthquake, and most of them have not been repaired until now," said North Lombok Regency Education, Culture and Sports (Dikbudpora) Head Adnan, in North Lombok Regency, Antara, Monday, 17 January.

He said his party had coordinated with the North Lombok Regency Public Works and Spatial Planning Agency (PUPR) regarding the problem of an elementary school building damaged by the earthquake.

This needs to be done in accordance with the direction of the central government who wants the North Lombok Regency Government to conduct an assessment to strengthen school data recorded in the basic education data (Dapodik).

"So the data in Dapodik must be strengthened by an assessment statement, in this case carried out by the PUPR Office of North Lombok Regency," he said.

Adnan said that based on the results of an interim analysis, the nominal amount needed to repair and rebuild elementary school buildings affected by the earthquake reached Rp72 billion.

The results of the analysis have also been submitted by the Regional Secretary of North Lombok Regency together with the Regional Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) of North Lombok Regency, when coordinating at the center to fight for the schools that have not been touched to be built immediately.

"There are heavy, moderate and light damage, almost 80 percent of which are heavily damaged, hopefully in 2023 we will receive special allocation funds," he also said.

Due to the condition of the buildings that are still damaged, he said, teaching and learning activities are still being carried out in emergency classrooms that were built after the earthquake in 2018. The walls of the building are made of plywood and roofed with zinc (spandek).

Meanwhile, to repair or build new school buildings using the APBD is very unlikely, especially since North Lombok Regency is still facing the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020, after an earthquake struck in 2018.

"To build a school from APBD funds is very difficult in a pandemic like now," said Adnan.