Throughout January 2023, Sukabumi Notes 15 Disaster Events

Victims of landslides in Sukabumi (ANTARA)

SUKABUMI - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Sukabumi Regency, West Java, noted that throughout January 2023, the area was hit by 15 cases or disasters.

"The landslide dominates disaster events in January 2023," said the Manager of the Operations Control Center (Pusdalops) of the Sukabumi Regency BPBD, Daeng Sutisna, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, February 1.

As for the details of the disaster incident according to local BPBD data for landslides as many as seven incidents, strong winds or tornadoes, two floods, one movement of land incident and another disaster.

As a result of the disaster as many as six housing units were damaged, eight housing units were threatened and social and public facilities as well as seven other damaged facilities.

Then for the affected residents as many as 13 families (KK) or 38 people and one family or eight people fled. However, of the dozens of these disasters, there were no injuries or deaths.

"From the results of calculations and data collection, due to the disaster that occurred during January, the loss reached Rp190 million," he added.

Daeng said the 15 disasters were spread across 11 sub-districts and the most occurred in Ciemas District with four incidents, then Nagrak District with two incidents and one each incident in Cicantayan, Simpenan, Warungkiara, Cicurug, Purabaya, Cidolog, Cisolok, Kadudampit and Surade sub-districts.