EARTHQUAKE IN CILACAP

CILACAP, KOMPAS - Hundreds of people Cilacap District residents who are victims of the earthquake magnitude 7.3 shock on the Richter scale centered in the waters of Tasikmalaya on 2 September, was still sleeping in tents and homes closest relatives. They do not get help with home repairs until now, although rainfall around Cilacap already started to increase.

Based datan Regional Disaster Management Agency Cilacap, there are 258 homes listed collapsed, 962 houses damaged, 2345 houses damaged and light. Damage to infrastructure, including a village hall collapsed, four heavily damaged village hall, village hall six slightly damaged, 11 schools were severely damaged, 10 lightly damaged schools, a place of worship fell, six places of worship damaged, and four buildings collapsed market. Total losses reached USD 21.809 billion.

At least 10 affected families in Garu Sand Village, Village Bojongsari, Kedungreja District, for example, until Saturday (3 / 10), still survive in tents and semi-permanent home they built from the rubble of their house collapsed.

Nidah (70) one of them confessed, is hoping to help repair the house so she immediately poured with a child and grandchildren can live a comfortable life again. Until now, Nidah with children and grandchildren to sleep in tents and semi-permanent houses are built from the rubble of a collapsed house due to earthquake.

He admitted, more often sleeping in semi-permanent houses built his son, than in the tent. If sleeping in a tent, he said, was very hot, even though it's starting to rain.

"But if you sleep in the house was not comfortable, because the zinc is not tightly attached. If it rains, always get tampias rain," he said.

Neighbors, Ngadinem (45) also hopes to help repair the house can be channeled. Thus, she and her husband may soon build a house, anticipating the arrival of the rainy season.

To set up your own home, Ngadinem admitted, could not because until now he has not worked again as a laborer. That's because there is no rice in the village who began planting rice. While the needs of daily life with five children, he relies on help from the Government of Cilacap District.

"Food assistance is still okay," he said.

But not so with the earthquake victims in the village of Cinyawang, Patimuan District. Since two weeks ago, food aid to more than 100 people earthquake victims in the village had stopped. As stated Nabsiah (40), since there was no help, now he can only hope for food assistance from relatives and neighbors whose homes are not collapsing.

Mayor Cinyawang, Tusiman said, residents whose homes collapsed and damaged by the earthquake have long asked for help to repair their homes can return to live in comfort. "If you asked them to establish themselves, it was unlikely. Because they were just farm laborers are very small wages," he said.

(Source : http://regional.kompas.com/)