Still Standing

The Javanese traditional house has a structure that deflects the destructiveness of quakes. It is in the shape of a platform and everything is held together by wooden pegs.

November 10, 2009

THE traditional Cikondang house remained standing, although dozens of other houses in Lemajang village in the Pangalengan district of Bandung suffered cracks and damage as a result of an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale last September 2. The house measuring 12 meters in length and with a width of 8 meters has walls made of bamboo and a thatched roof and is still standing despite having been built in 1940. “Our bumi (Sundanese for �

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