Deputy Minister Of PKP And Deputy Minister Of PPPU Will Review The Response Flats For The Plan To Prevent Victims Of The Kemayoran Fire

Illustration. Rusunami Klaapa Village, Pondok Kelapa, East Jakarta, Monday 29 July 2019. (ANTARA-Adnan N)

JAKARTA - The government is considering flats to become shelters as temporary shelters for victims affected by fires in residential areas located in Kebon Blank Village, Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Pratikno said that his party had just held a ministerial level meeting with the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to think of flats (rusun) as shelters, before the victims were moved to their permanent residences.

"We are thinking about a temporary shelter. Later, the Deputy Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas will check it later, then the Deputy Minister of Public Works will also check to see which flats can be used as temporary shelters before we think about residential houses that remain for them," said Pratikno when met at the Presidential Palace. Jakarta, Thursday 12 December, confiscated by Antara.

Pratikno explained that at the meeting Deputy Minister of Housing and Settlement Areas (WamenPKP) Fahri Hamzah and Deputy Minister of Public Works (WamenPU) Diana Kusumastuti would first review the flats that could be used as temporary shelters.

According to Pratikno, refugee victims need to first occupy a halfway house before they move to permanent housing, which is currently still being studied by the government.

After the fire destroyed nearly 600 houses, more than 1,500 victims are currently still taking refuge at the standby post at SDN 09 Kebon Blank, Kemayoran, Central Jakarta, while the other victims are in the multipurpose field.

"The refugees are now in elementary school. Even though elementary school will be used soon. It must be used immediately. It is activated. The second is in the field. People can't linger there," said Pratikno.

While thinking about a halfway house, the central government instructed that services and assistance to fire victims continue.

The fire that occurred on Tuesday, December 10 last afternoon occurred in this densely populated settlement. As a result of the fire, as many as 1,800 people from 600 families and seven neighborhood units (RT) namely RT 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 and 09 (joined in RW 05) were affected.