Bantul, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Guv Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X has asked locals to help repair houses that suffered light damage in the magnitude-6 earthquake tape-recorded in the south of Yogyakarta on Friday night.
On Saturday, he checked out homes impacted by the quake in Bangen, Bangunjiwo village, Bantul district.
He stated that there were no buildings that were seriously affected in the earthquake.
” I believe slightly damaged houses can be fixed with shared cooperation to speed up recovery,” he included.
The guv said that homeowners can assist their neighbors whose homes have actually been lightly harmed, as was done following the Bantul earthquake of 2006.
” Next-door neighbors can help each other, like what happened in2006 The neighborhood has a culture of gotong royong( shared cooperation), and they ask for aid from the city government if they need it,” he added.
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The community should work together to recover from the earthquake’s impact, and not just wait for the government’s assistance, he worried.
” Do not simply wish for help, but how the community can perform mutual cooperation. This is various from the 2006 Bantul earthquake because there are no evacuees,” he stated.
Thanks to a synergy amongst the district and local government in Yogyakarta, the earthquake did not trigger extreme damage to structures, other than for the Gunungkidul Cultural Park in Playen.
” We have actually sent the social officers there,” he stated.
The governor has also prepared relief funds for managing the quake’s impact in Bantul district.
He said each district administration can utilize its emergency fund first, and his side will concern assist if the budget is not enough.
According to the Sultan, each district has various emergency fund allocations, for instance, the allocation for Bantul is Rp14 billion ($930,832) and for Gunungkidul Rp5 billion ($332,440).
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