Still Standing
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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.
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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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