Jokowi Titip Pesan Infrastruktur Pascabencana Palu 2018 Dijaga

President Jokowi inaugurated the Anutapura Hospital, UIN Datokarama, and permanent housing as well as post-disaster settlement infrastructure in Palu City, Tuesday (26/3/2024). (ANTARA/Nur Amalia Amir)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) asked all parties to maintain and utilize infrastructure that has been built after the 2018 disaster in Palu City, Central Sulawesi (Central Sulawesi). "The infrastructure that has been built after this disaster is maintained, utilized as well as possible so that community activities can fully return to normal, social activity, economic activity can move and recover," said President Jokowi in Palu City, Tuesday. President Jokowi inaugurated a number of post-disaster building rehabilitation and reconstruction infrastructure projects, namely the Anutapura Palu Regional General Hospital (RSUD), Datokarama UIN Campus and permanent housing as well as post-disaster residential infrastructure. The development is based on Presidential Instruction (Inpres) Number 8 of 2022 concerning Completion of Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Central Sulawesi Province, which will end in December 2024. Earthquakes and tsunamis in 2018 in Central Sulawesi claimed 4,340 casualties, 175.000 people displaced, and 68,000 houses were damaged. with an estimated nominal material loss of around Rp15 trillion.

Therefore, he continued, the President issued Presidential Instruction Number 8 of 2022 for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Anutapura Medical Center Building at the Anutapura Hospital, the reconstruction of the Datokarama State Islamic University (UIN) and the construction of permanent housing as well as post-disaster settlement infrastructure. The president said the Anutapura Hospital was the first building in Indonesia to implement the technology based isolation system, with a lead rubber bearing (LRB) to withstand seismic power due to the earthquake.

Rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Anutapura Medical Center building of the Anutapura Hospital covering an area of 19 thousand square meters worth Rp244 billion equipped with Emergency Installation (IGD), obstetrical emergency, polyclinic, radiology, laboratory, inpatient room and central surgical installation. "Earlier I was given a picture under this building, there was such a shockbreaker. So it could be flexible if an earthquake occurs but we didn't expect an earthquake," he said. The President continued, reconstruction of the Datokarama UIN Building was built in 2020 on 34 thousand square meters worth Rp139 billion. This reconstruction includes various learning facilities, lecture buildings, student centers, auditoriums, sports facilities and other supporting facilities. Meanwhile, the construction of permanent residences as well as post-disaster settlement infrastructure that has been built since 2019 worth more than Rp1 trillion.