SMPN 3 Tanggeung Lab Room Collapses, Cianjur Disdikpora Suspects Due To Earthquake Impact

The computer laboratory building at SMPN 3 Tanggeung Cianjur, West Java, collapsed, allegedly due to natural disasters and inappropriate building quality because it was only two years old.ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri.

JABAR - The Cianjur Regency Youth and Sports Education Office (Disdikpora) deployed a team to SMPN 3 Tanggeung, to determine the cause of the collapse of the laboratory that was just built two years ago.

Head of Disdikpora Cianjur Ruhli Solehudin said, after the report came in from his team, he would immediately propose an improvement so that teaching and learning activities at SMPN 3 Tanggeung could run normally.

"Although it is not a classroom, it is still needed to maximize learning, we will immediately propose improvements next year so that the teaching and learning process returns to normal," he said in Cianjur Monday, October 28, which was confiscated by Antara.

Temporary suspicion, he said, was that the collapse of the computer laboratory building was due to the earthquake that often hit Cianjur for the last few months, triggering poor construction quality.

The school has also moved computer equipment in the room since long ago because it saw the condition of the roof starting to fall, so that there were no casualties or other material losses except for the collapsed building.

"We are waiting for a report from the team, later it will be reported to the Cianjur Regent, with the hope that the rebuilding can be carried out at the beginning of the year," he said.

The head of SMPN 3 Tanggeung Ernawati said that the collapse of the computer laboratory building occurred on Friday afternoon at around 13.00 WIB, but only went viral on social media on Sunday, October 27.

The building, which was built in 2022 since the last 6 months, has not been used, because the foundation of the roof of the building is already fragile and it is feared that it will collapse at any time, especially since it has entered the rainy season, so all the equipment in it is moved to another room.

"The condition of the building has been damaged and almost collapsed since I first entered as school principal six months ago, so I asked all computers in the room to be moved and the room not used," he said.

At the time of the collapse of the room, all students had returned home and there were no extracurricular learning activities or activities because on Friday, but the collapse of the building did not interfere with teaching and learning activities.

"The teaching and learning process remains normal because none of the six classrooms have been affected, we hope that collapsed buildings can be rebuilt soon," he said.