Sultan Asks Mutual Cooperation Residents To Repair Minor Damaged Houses Due To The Yogyakarta Earthquake

YOGYAKARTA - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 that rocked Yogyakarta damaged a number of houses, starting from mild and severe ones. The repair process began to be carried out by people whose houses were affected.

The Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X asked residents to work together to repair houses that suffered minor damage. He conveyed this when he visited the houses affected by the earthquake in Bangen Hamlet, Bangunjiwo Village, Bantul Regency, DIY, Saturday, July 1.

On that occasion, the Sultan said, as a result of the earthquake there were no buildings or houses in the DIY area that were badly damaged, but lightly damaged.

"I think the houses that were lightly damaged could be repaired in mutual cooperation to speed up recovery," said the Sultan accompanied by GKR Hemas after inspecting Ponem's lightly damaged house (80).

The governor of Yogyakarta said that residents whose houses were lightly damaged due to the earthquake could repair their houses with neighbors in mutual cooperation, as happened at the Bantul earthquake in 2006.

"Neighbors can help each other like what happened in 2006. People have a culture of mutual cooperation, and if necessary, assistance from local governments can ask for it," said Sultan.

Nevertheless, the Sultan emphasized the public not only to expect assistance from the government, without any efforts made with neighbors to immediately rise and recover from the impact of the earthquake.

"Don't just expect help, but how can people carry out mutual cooperation, the important thing is that. There are no refugees, so don't think like 2006, this is very different," he said.

Sultan also said that as a result of coordination with the district and city governments in DIY, the earthquake did not cause severe damage to buildings, except the Gunung Kidul Cultural Park in Playen.

"There is nothing severe in Gunung Kidul, maybe the hardest is only the Cultural Park. We have sent people from the Social Service there," he said.