BPBD: Temporary Losses Of Malang Plaza Fire Reaches IDR 56 Billion

East Java Police Labfor Team Personnel saw the condition of the Malang Plaza building, on Jalan Agus Salim, Klojen District, Malang City, East Java

The Malang City Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) stated that based on preliminary data and initial reports, losses due to fires that occurred at the Malang Plaza shopping center on May 2, 2023 reached Rp56 billion. Malang City BPBD Chief Executive Prayitno said that the loss value was IDR 56 billion and was preliminary data and assumptions based on reports from business actors at the shopping center. "The initial data calculated was Rp56 billion, it was a rough assumption from the incoming report and we calculated it manually," said Prayitno in Malang City, East Java, Antara, Wednesday, May 3. Prayitno explained that the value of the loss which reached Rp56 billion did not include losses from the presence of Cinema 21 and Variety Department Store cinemas, which are clothing sellers operating on the second floor of Malang Plaza. According to him, the data received by the Malang City BPBD is also still growing. To date, 145 business actors have reported the impact of the fire incident. "For the number of reporters as many as 145 business actors. The losses currently recorded do not include Cinema 21 and Variety," he said. He added that his party is currently communicating with the management of the shopping center to juxtapose data on the number of business actors in the shopping center. "We have met, in the context of juxtaposing data on business actors. Meanwhile, Variety and Cinema 21 have not yet," he said. Based on data received by the Malang City BPBD, the value of losses from each business actor reported ranged from Rp. 6 million to Rp. 7 billion. The shopping center is one of the centers for selling cellular phones and electronic goods in Malang City. Malang Plaza shopping center caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday (2/5/2023) at around 00.30 WIB. The shopping center is one of the centers for buying and selling mobile phones and there are also retail clothes and cinemas.

Based on temporary data, in the shopping center there were approximately 63 units of stalls that caught fire, in addition to the shopping center area for clothes, cinemas and places to sell food or pujasera.