Diskdipora Ensures 2,500 School Rooms Damaged Due To Disasters In Cianjur Repaired This Year

One of the classrooms at SDN Sindangjaya 3 Ciranjang, Cianjur, West Java, was damaged by a fallen tree and immediately received construction assistance. (ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri). (Ahmad Fikri)

JAKARTA - The Cianjur Regency Youth and Sports Education Office (Disdikpora) ensures that school buildings damaged by natural disasters will be repaired in 2025, including two elementary school buildings damaged by falling trees in Campaka and Ciranjang sub-districts.

Head of Disdipora Cianjur Ruhli Solehudi said that since 2022 he had collected data on damaged schools of around 2,500 classrooms and thousands of others were moderately and lightly damaged, so various ways were taken to reduce damaged classes.

"It is possible that the number will continue to grow, but the priority scale damaged by natural disasters will be repaired in 2025, such as two schools damaged by fallen trees in Campaka and Ciranjang sub-districts," he said in Cianjur, Wednesday, February 19, which was confiscated by Antara.

He explained that data on school buildings that were heavily damaged in Cianjur was around 2,500 units, moderately damaged 1,500 units, and lightly damaged 2,000 classes, and the number continued to grow every year over time, because there were still many schools that had not received repairs or repair assistance.

This number, he noted, is outside the shortage of new classrooms which reach 1,100 rooms due to the number of students who experience an increase every year, recorded approximately 250 thousand public and private elementary school students throughout Cianjur.

"To reduce the number of damaged school buildings, we propose assistance and cooperation from the Ministry of PUPR because the budget is limited from the Cianjur Regional Budget and the General Allocation Fund (DAU), so we need assistance from the ministry in the hope that it can be completed soon," he said.

Meanwhile, regarding the construction of school infrastructure, both roads and classrooms, facilities and infrastructure, he continued, it was handed over to the central government or the ministry, because there would be a refocusing of the Free Nutrition Food (MBG) budget which is a strategic program of the central government.

"We leave it to the central government through the ministry regarding the construction and addition of school facilities and infrastructure, especially the limited budget for development obtained this year from the West Java Provincial Government," he said.

In fact, through the Cianjur Regency Government (Pemkab), it has allocated a budget for repairing one hundred classrooms damaged in 2024 due to natural disasters in 18 sub-districts from the 2025 Special Allocation Fund (DAK) amounting to IDR 20 billion.

"The priority scale is carried out for schools or classrooms damaged by natural disasters, targeted by the beginning of this year to be able to run, we even collaborate with the ministry to increase the budget," he concluded.