The Emergency Response Status Was Revoked Last Week, Jayapura Fire Victims Still Place Refugee Tendas

Illustration of firefighters to extinguish the fire. (Pixabay)

PAPUA - Jayapura City Government (Pemkot) said the disaster emergency response status due to the fire in Dok IX, North Jayapura District, Papua was lifted on October 13, 2022.

However, the Acting Head of the Jayapura City Social Service, Djong Mahuay, said that there were still fire victims occupying the disaster emergency response post.

"However, most of the residents affected by the disaster have returned to their relatives' homes while those who live in the post do not have a family," he said in Jayapura, Papua, quoted from Antara, Thursday, October 21.

The refugee post is located in the Education Office of the Papua Province Library and Archives.

Djong also admitted that the Jayapura City Government would build 19 houses of fire victims in Doc IX.

He said that the construction of the houses of the fire victims would be assisted by the local Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Office.

"So that will be from the PUPR Service which distributes building materials with a budget that has been determined by the Jayapura City Government," he said.

He added that the Jayapura City Government would try as quickly as possible to build houses for fire victims.

"So that the victims who experienced this disaster can return to occupy the houses that have been built," he said.