The Guarantee Comes From Coordinating Minister Mahfud MD, Make Sure The Reconstruction Of The Damaged Houses Of Cianjur Will Be Fast

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Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD guarantees that the reconstruction of houses damaged by the earthquake in Cianjur Regency, West Java, will be carried out quickly.

According to him, the technical or form of damaged house reconstruction will be explained later by the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR). What is clear is that funds for reconstruction from the government can be disbursed quickly. "If the government can quickly discuss the funds as long as the location and location are clear, I think it's not too long as when we were in Lumajang, we can also get it," Mahfud said while reviewing Cianjur Hospital, Cianjur Regency, West Java, Wednesday, November 23.

According to him, the task of the government and the apparatus now is to search for victims who are still missing. After that, it is the government's turn to return residents or refugees to be able to return to their homes. "This must be considered, there are BNPB and so on together with the TNI and Polri and others, and people hope that they will also continue to participate as they are now," said Mahfud. he also admitted that he would solve the problem of residents who had not been accommodated at the evacuation post and created an independent shelter post. The reason, he said, Cianjur Regency was still in a disaster emergency response status.

"We are in an emergency response period for several days. At the beginning, it must be understood if someone has to find it himself and we are also looking for it where it is still in the process. If we see the cohesiveness of the government and the community running well," he said. Previously, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported data as of Tuesday (22/11), the earthquake in Cianjur caused 6,570 houses to be lightly damaged, 2,071 houses were moderately damaged, and 12,640 houses were heavily damaged. Then the earthquake caused as many as 268 fatalities. Of these 122 of them have been identified. In addition, there are as many as 151 people who are still being searched because they are declared missing. Then there were 1,083 people injured and 58,362 people in the evacuation.