Cianjur Disaster Response Thematic Community Service (KKNT TB) Student Team of the Diponegoro University (Undip) has carried out activities to help victims affected by the earthquake in Cibeureum Village, Cugenang District, Cianjur Regency, West Java, in collaboration with the community and the Cibeureum Village Government. These activities include collecting data on residents’ houses which are categorized as heavily damaged and will be torn down, implementing the reading garden program and assisting in carrying out the demolition of the Cibeureum Village Archives Building.
On the first day (18/1) the KKNT TB UNDIP team helped pack and distribute logistics in the form of groceries which were grouped into 2 packages, namely packages with children and without children. The distribution was carried out according to the household in stages at 4 points in each RW in Cibeureum Village, using ambulances and pick-ups assisted by Babinsa and other village officials.
There were several statements submitted by the residents including many considerations from each household whether the demolished house would later be built by themselves or built by the government. Then for houses that have not been demolished, residents are confused if their house is torn down where will the items in the house be placed, and there are several houses in the moderate category, but because they are considered dangerous, the house is torn down.
Not only residents’ houses, the team also conducted a survey of reading gardens in RW 01, 02 and 03 through interviewing kindergarten owners, madrasahs, posts, and looking directly at temporary shelters (Hunian Sementara / huntara) that had been established, with the aim of determining the exact location so that they could used for reading gardens. Apart from that, they also built evacuation tents that will be used by local residents as temporary shelters because their houses have been torn down.
On Saturday (21/1) the team helped demolish the archive building because it suffered quite heavy damage due to the earthquake that occurred, so that the building could not be used again as before because it would endanger village officials and village residents who would use the building, so it must be rebuilt. (Lin/Nuril/Arbi/Rafi – Public Relations)