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PADANG - The Indonesian government and aid agencies have begun building temporary shelters for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last month's earthquake in West Sumatra Province. The 7.6 magnitude earthquake on 30 September left 1,117 people dead, more than 1,200 seriously injured and over 135,000 homes badly damaged or destroyed.
Thousands of temporary homes will be built, some using materials recycled from damaged homes, Priyadi Kardono, a spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), announced. Each shelter will be 18 sqm and cost three million rupiah (210 euro), Kardono said. "Work on temporary houses has begun in some locations," Kardono told IRIN. "Such buildings can last up to six months and are more comfortable than tents," he said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its 20 October situation report that shelter remained the biggest unmet need in West Sumatra. The BNPB director for reconstruction, Bakri Beck, said the rebuilding of permanent houses and provision of basic necessities over two months would cost an estimated 3.3 trillion rupiah (235 million euro).
But the total cost of reconstruction was still being calculated by an assessment team with the help of the World Bank and the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Beck said. "We expect the reconstruction period to start in early November," Beck said.
Kardono said the government was considering setting up a special agency tasked with rebuilding West Sumatra, similar to the Aceh Nias Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR), established after the 2004 tsunami. "It is still being discussed. The president wants a body similar to the BRR for the sake of accountability," Kardono said.
Thousands lost their homes in the 30 September quake. Without any food aid, a woman is forced to cook vegetable scraps for her children in Ketaping Village, Padang Pariaman district, West Sumatra. © Jefri Aries/IRIN
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