“I was personally shaken from my bed, furniture was falling, concrete chunks started falling from my hotel room as people were running out their hotel room in panic only in their bedclothes”...
Last month’s earthquake in central Java killed more then 5.800 people and more then 50.000 were injured, far fewer than the hundreds of thousands killed by Indonesia’s Tsunami and Pakistan’s recent earthquake. Is now calculated to have destroyed more houses than the Tsunami did in Aceh in 2004.
According to Bappenas, Indonesia’s National Development Planning Agency, two factors combined to make Yogyakarta’s tragedy one of the costliest earthquakes ever - poorly constructed housing was densely packed into one of the world's most populated rural regions.
Country Director for the World Bank in Indonesia calls it was one the world’s worst natural disasters of the last 10 years and said that international support for reconstruction is vital…
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