Pengungsi Gunung Kelud Diijinkan BNPB untuk Pulang
Kelud Eruption: Evacuees Allowed to Return Home
Reporter : Roni Said
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Kediri (B2B) - Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana menyatakan masyarakat di sekitar lereng Gunung Kelud boleh kembali ke rumah masing-masing menyusul penetapan status Siaga (level III) gunung itu.
"Data aktivitas vulkanik sejak Jumat (14/2) hingga hari ini (20/2) menunjukkan tidak ada gempa-gempa vulkanik Gunung Kelud dalam waktu dekat," kata Kepala Pusat Data Informasi dan Humas BNPB, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, dalam pesan singkat yang diterima Antara di Kediri, Kamis.
Namun, BNPB tetap mengimbau masyarakat sekitar lereng Gunung Kelud tidak beraktivitas di radius lima kilometer dari kawah gunung ataupun di bantaran sungai yang berhulu ke gunung itu.
"Imbauan Kepala BNPB, masyarakat harus tetap waspada terhadap ancaman lahar hujan," kata Sutopo.
Sutopo menjelaskan pemulangan pengungsi, perbaikan rumah-rumah warga, serta infrastruktur akan dipimpin Gubernur Jawa Timur.
"Gubernur juga telah mengalokasikan dana Rp100 miliar untuk penanganan hingga rehabilitasi dan rekonstruksi nanti," katanya.
Universitas Brawijaya, lanjut Sutopo, akan memverifikasi data kerusakan total secara berjenjang dari kelurahan hingga kecamatan pada Sabtu (22/2).
"Pada Minggu (23/2), akan dikerahkan material untuk perbaikan kerusakan dan pada Senin (24/2) atay Selasa (25/2) TNI, Polri, satuan serja perangkat daerah, dan relawan akan melakukan perbaikan fisik," katanya.
Kediri (B2B) - The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has allowed evacuees to return to their homes on the slope of Mount Kelud after the volcanos status has been lowered from the top to the third alert.
According to data of volcanic activities from February 14 to 20, the volcano showed no signs of volcanic tremors, Head of the BNPB Information Center and Public Relations Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a short message text on Thursday.
However, the agency called on the people living on the slope of the volcano not to carry out activities within a radius of five kilometers from its crater and along rivers having their upper reaches on the volcano.
"The BNPB head calls on the local people to stay alert for the threat of rain-triggered lavas," he said.
Sutopo said the East Java governor will lead the efforts to send back the evacuees and to repair houses and infrastructures damaged in last Thursdays Mount Kelud eruptions.
"The governor also has allocated Rp100 billion in funds for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the damaged houses and infrastructures," he said.
Mount Kelud, which is located in the border of Blitar and Kediri districts, East Java Province, spewed gravel and ash to the air at a height of 17 km, which later landed in a number of places, up to West Nusa Tenggara and West Java provinces, which are hundreds of kilometers away.
The eruption of Mount Kelud forced around 200 thousand people to flee, forcing closures of airports and schools in several cities in Indonesias most densely populated island of Java, due to its ash rains.
The explosive eruption affected 35 villages within a radius of 10 km from the mountains summit. These villages are located in nine sub-districts across three districts: Blitar, Kediri and Malang.
