The Team Trained By BNPB Calculated Losses Due To Disasters Falls To Natuna Landslide Locations

The landslide disaster that hit East Serasan, Natuna, Riau Islands, Monday, March 6. (ANTARA-HO-Cherman)

The Head of BPBD Riau Islands (Kepri) Hasbi revealed that the Post-Disaster Needs Study Team (Jitupasna) was recording the loss of landslides on Serasan Island, Natuna.

"After the disaster emergency response period was over, now it is in the post-disaster where the first step was taken to assess or calculate the loss of landslide impact by the Jitupasna Team," said Hasbi in Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, Thursday, April 6, as reported by Antara.

Hasbi said that the Jitupasna Team had been trained by BNPB regarding how to calculate the losses caused by landslides.

For example, he continued, there were buildings where residents' houses were buried by landslides and could no longer be excavated, of course the value of the losses would be different from the houses of residents whose only parts of the buildings were affected by landslides.

He hopes that the Jitupasna Team, which was formed based on the Decree (SK) of the Governor of the Riau Islands, can immediately complete data collection in the next week, because the results of the data collection will become the basis for recovery after the landslide disaster on Serasan Island.

"We collect data on the loss, then for recovery it will be proposed to the central government and local governments. For example, the construction of houses affected by landslides is carried out by the Ministry of PUPR," said Hasbi.

Hasbi further conveyed from the results of a meeting with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources that based on a geological survey on Serasan Island, there are still many potential landslide-prone points that must be anticipated together, especially local residents.

"That's why it is necessary to re-register the potential for landslides on Serasan Island," he said.

Meanwhile, Zulheppy, Coordinator of Logistics for Landslide Disasters on Serasan Island, said that conditions at the disaster site had now started to become conducive. A number of Natuna BPBD officers, who had been on standby since the beginning of the incident there, have also begun to gradually return to the capital, Ranai.

He said most of the refugees had started to return to their homes, but there were still families who fled because their houses had been buried by landslides, and while waiting for the construction of a new house by the central government.

"There are dozens of families who are still displaced, scattered in kindergarten as many as two families, in PAUD four families, in SMA/housing teacher one family. Then in Hilir Village one family and in 20 families, they signed the houses of residents and their families," said Zulheppy.

A landslide hit Serasan Island, Natuna, on March 6, 2023. As a result, 50 people were found dead, thousands of residents fled, and dozens of houses were damaged by the ground.