30 April 2013

Elementary Students in Learning at Tent Dieng Forced Displacement

(Arbi Anugrah/detikcom)

Banjarnegara, - Students of SD Negeri 1 Kepakisan, Banjarnegara, Central Java forced to learn in tents due to their school buildings damaged. Their school damaged after hit by 4.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the Dieng Plateau on Friday (19/4).

"Iya was studying in tents," said Rifki, sixth-grade students who are preparing for the national exam to reporters the location of evacuation, Saturday (27/04/2013).

According to him, he claimed to be ready to follow the national exam and have to learn in order to pass despite having to study in tents. "If fear collapsed in class," he said while playing with her friends in the camps.

As for post-earthquake relief trauma in children, volunteers of PMI Banjarnegara conduct activities to encourage children to be active in refugee camps following the activities such as singing, playing ball, painting and others.

"We did this activity to relieve post-quake trauma to children in refugee camps so that there is no anxiety in them, so we invite continue to follow the activities," said Akim, PMI Volunteer Banjarnegara.

AFP monitoring the location of refugee children who were following the events with volunteer teams seemed happy, even if there is a child who is quiet, the volunteers immediately invited to join the children play with her friends so she cheered as if to forget the earthquake that had damaging their home villages.

From the information gathered, the damage in SD Negeri 1 Kepakisan includes seven classes of 10 classes, in addition to the damage also occurred in the library building, the official residence of WC and two teachers. As for the grade 6 students totaling 38 students, today Hanaya 10 students who left school from the total students at SDN 1 Kepakisan totaling 239 students.

"Because the school buildings damaged and feared to disturb concentration, then the national exam will be held in tents," said Izen Taufukurohman, one Banjarnegara PMI volunteers.

Previous thousands of residents in the Dieng Plateau, precisely in a village in District Batur, Banjarnegara, Central Java, were displaced following the devastating earthquake that occurred on Friday (19/4) night. Hundreds of buildings were damaged light and heavy. The earthquake occurred at 18:58 pm since. Started at 7:00 p.m. to 20:03 pm, and recorded 160 earthquakes felt in almost all regions of the Dieng Plateau with MMI scale III-V.

Head of Geophysics Station Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Banjarnegara, Ahmad Lani, said the earthquake that rocked the Dieng Plateau measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale (SR). The epicenter was located at 7.29 south latitude and 109.88 east longitude, or 11 kilometers northwest of Wonosobo with a depth of 10 kilometers. This includes tectonic earthquake and predicted its center in the village of Tanji Autumn, District Onions. Tremor was felt in three districts namely Banjarnegara, Wonosobo and stem with a duration of 5-30 seconds per earthquake.

(Arb / mpr)

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