Lombok, PINUS PRESS – Ministry of Economy, Sri Mulyani has confirmed that the government has supplied 1.9 Trillion rupiahs to support the recovery process of damaged and lost infrastructure in Lombok.
“The aid is allocated from the budget of National Disaster Handling Unit (BNPB), as well as added funds from reallocated budget from other ministry and units”, as said by Sri Mulyani after finished attending a meeting in Vice President office on Monday (27/8/2018)
307 million rupiahs has been used to rebuild 5000 houses that has been destroyed from the 7.0SR earthquake that hit Lombok on Sunday, 5 August 2018. 1.25 trillion was used to prepare logistics, food, water, as well as rehabilitation shelter for the refugees to stay over and waited until aftershocks are confirmed to be cleared. The last 7.8 billion has been directed for the supply of health logistics as well as medicines and therapists to cure diseases and calm trauma down.
However, 5.000 houses are not all houses that were destroyed after the disaster. It has been predicted that there are around 17.400 houses that were affected by the earthquake. The government is still thinking of allocating budget to facilitate more rebuilding of the houses, as well as the infrastructures and facilities.
To facilitate faster reconstruction, vice governor of Western Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has proposed a budget estimation to the Ministry of Finance. “After verification with the vice governor, we would propose a reconstruction budget of 50 million rupiahs for each severely damaged houses, 25 million rupiahs for medium level damage, and 10 million rupiahs to each minimum damaged houses.” mentioned by Willem, the head of BNPB.
If all the plans are to run smoothly, most of the rehabilitations facilities which include schools, religious buildings, hospitals, a well as markets should be finished rebuilding by December 2019. The latest deadline for all these facilities to be reconstructed has been set by March 2019.
Not only rehabilitations facilities, the government will also focus on reconstructing easier road access for civilians to travel around the area. This would include rebuilding old roads as well as constructing potential new bridges and roads.
Currently, the refugees are still in position of staying at the rehabilitation tents and refugee camps that were provided by the government. This is done to purposely avoid them from getting damaged from potential aftershocks after the main earthquake which hit heavily and over 470 people were killed during the disaster. Moreover, there has been more than 170 aftershocks happening and the latest one being on Sunday, 26 August 2018, which hit an area of Western Sumbawa with the intensity as high as 5.6SR.
Pinus Press 