Receiving A Warm Welcome From Mama-mama Sentani Papua, Social Minister Risma Said President Jokowi Would Inaugurate A Healthy Home

Minister of Social Affairs Tri Rismaharini inspected the healthy home for 76 families (KK) in Jayapura Regency, Papua,

PAPUA - Social Minister Tri Rismaharini said his party together with President Joko Widodo were scheduled for Wednesday to inaugurate a healthy home for 76 families (KK) victims of the Sentani flash flood. "We took the opportunity for the President to come here because there was an event, so come here," said Risma while reviewing the construction of houses for Sentani flood refugees who had been affected since 2019, Antara, Tuesday, August 30. Social Minister Risma received a warm welcome from the mothers who were helping clean the house and some were keeping their gardens with various vegetable crops. After going around looking at the progress of the construction, Social Minister Risma stated that 90 percent of the homework had been completed and only had to complete supporting facilities and infrastructure. "Now, if they live in this, it's not perfect because we are installing electricity again, then we will prepare more channels and roads. But they can at least occupy this," Risma said when asked by reporters. The Ministry of Social Affairs is currently working on supporting facilities in the form of electricity, roads, and waterways. Although it has not been completed, the house can be occupied because the work has been completed. Social Minister Risma said that so far people have lived in refugee tents whose conditions do not meet health standards, so that their houses no longer live in tents. "So they don't live in tents. If they live in tents, they are also not healthy, right? They mix their parents and children, then their environmental conditions are also not healthy. They are difficult for clean water and so on," he said. In addition to healthy homes, continued Social Minister Risma, the Ministry of Social Affairs also provides facilities for raising livestock and farming as a form of economic empowerment. He hopes that the construction of this house will not only be used as a place of residence, but can be used to empower the community while ensuring the availability of opportunities for the community to be independent and live a prosperous life. "Yes, I hope that this is not just a house, but how is the sustainability. They can earn income, provide for their families," said Risma. On that occasion, Risma also expressed her intention to empower women to participate in supporting their families, one of which is by providing marketing and sewing training. "Earlier I promised the mothers, if they already occupy here later we will teach them to sew, teach them to sew. We have communicated with NTT, I ask them to teach them to make weaving," he said.