In the Red
Researchers at Gajah Mada University have drawn a map of quake-prone areas in Bantul. It may be a guide in the reconstruction of the town recently hit by a massive quake.
March 20, 2007
WHEN the sun sets Rusmiyanti and her husband and three children would find temporary shelter in a bamboo shack at Dusun Sindet, a hamlet in the village of Desa Trimulyo in the subdistrict of Bantul outside Yogyakarta in Central Java. By morning they would return to their house being rebuilt right in front of the bamboo construction.
It was dark when Rusmiyanti’s house collapsed, seriously injuring her youngest child Ichwan Budi Purwanto, in th
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