Residents Affected By Land Movement In Jatisari Cianjur Are Only Allowed To Build Stage Houses, Not Permanent

Joint officers of the Disaster Emergency Tangap (TDB) for ground movement in Jatisari Village, Bojongpicung District, Cianjur, West Java, supervised the avalanche site, Wednesday (8/5/2024). (ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri). (Ahmad Fikri)

JAKARTA - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Cianjur Regency, West Java, has allowed houses that collapsed due to land movement in Jatisari Village, Bojongpicung District, to be rebuilt with a non-permanent note. Field Coordinator Tangap Emergency Disaster Land Movement Bojongpicung Herman said the results of research conducted by the Geological Agency and BMKG team stated that villages were still habitable and that house construction could be carried out again. "For collapsed houses, they must be built with construction of houses on stilts instead of permanent, and residents can return to their homes at the earliest after TDB is declared complete on May 12," he said in Cianjur, Antara, Wednesday, May 8. Until now, joint officers consist of BPBD, PMI, TNI/Polri, joint volunteers and residents working together to cover up faults with land according to instructions from the Geological Agency and BMKG to prevent the continued expansion of land movement. Not only efforts to cover the faults, joint officers also planted a thousand hard trees in the hills that had been planted with banana trees as the eye of the search for residents but minimal hard trees. "We are targeting that on Thursday the handling efforts will be completed by closing faults and planting trees whose maintenance is left to local residents so that they can grow and can support land and store water," he said. Until now, he said, around 65 families were still taking refuge in the homes of their relatives who were considered safe from land movement. During the evacuation, his party provided various services to ease the burden on residents, including health services.

"Our hope is that after TDB is over, residents can return to their respective homes and live their lives as usual, provided that they continue to preserve nature so that land movement does not happen again," he said.