Indonesia to build homes for quake survivors

By Xinhua News Agency

Nov 29, 2022 12:39 am

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.

STARTING OVER Villagers walk past devastated houses in Cianjur district, West Java province, southwestern Indonesia on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. XINHUA PHOTO

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