JAKARTA: The Indonesian government plans to build hundreds of houses on the safer ground for the survivors of the earthquake that struck West Java province, the chief of the Southeast Asian archipelago's disaster agency said on Sunday.

Suharyanto, head of the National Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency, told a news conference that the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing would start constructing new houses on a two-hectare land next week.

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