Moving Land Refugees In Bojongpicung Cianjur Return Home, BPBD Asks To Beware Of Susulants

Residents of Bojongpicung Subdistrict, Cianjur, returned home after having fled for two weeks because their houses were threatened with ground movement. (ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri)

The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) noted that 65 heads of families of victims of land movement in Bojongpicung District, Cianjur, had returned to their respective homes after the status of the disaster emergency (TDB) was revoked.

Head of BPBD Cianjur Asep Sukma Wijaya said residents who had been displaced for two weeks were asked to remain vigilant and evacuate immediately when it rained heavily with an intensity of more than two hours, especially in the evening or evening.

"Based on the results of research by the Geological Agency and BMKG of the village in Jatisari Village, Bojongpicung District, residents still deserve to be occupied, but they are asked to remain vigilant and evacuate immediately when it rains heavily," he said in Cianjur, Thursday, May 16, confiscated by Antara.

Even though the TDB was over, Asep said, his party still placed officers to monitor and monitor the location of land movements in two villages in Jatisari Village, as an effort to anticipate and handle quickly when natural disasters occur again.

Meanwhile, prevention efforts by closing faults at the top of the village and planting trees to hold water were then handed over to residents for treatment and immediately reported when they saw natural signs of further disasters.

"We ask officers to routinely monitor, supervise and report developments in the field, when natural signs are seen they will immediately evacuate residents to safe places," he said.

Meanwhile, regarding the three damaged houses, he said, it had been submitted to receive assistance from the local government so that they could be rebuilt with a record that it was not a permanent house but a house on stilts according to the recommendations of Bandan Geology.

"We suggest that the rebuilding of houses that were heavily damaged is not permanent but houses on stilts, now the aid process is running with the hope of getting off the Cianjur Regency Government soon," he said.

As reported by BPBD Cianjur, the status of TDB for ground movement in Jatisari Village, Bojongpicung District, Wednesday, May 1 for the next 14 days due to the large number of residents who fled.

The application of the status of TDB for ground movement based on the number of houses affected and the presence of refugees and the movement of land that continues to expand. The houses affected by a total of 61 houses plus 2 mosques, while the displaced families were 67 families with a total of about 214 people.