Lombok Remains in Focus
The central government’s move to take over disaster management in Lombok is appropriate. We urge President Jokowi to immediately issue a presidential instruction to implement emergency response action, including rehabilitation and reconstruction, in Lombok.
Amid widespread 2018 Asian Games fever, locals in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), remain traumatized following a recent series of earthquakes.
The earthquakes in West Nusa Tenggara ravaged Lombok and surrounding areas. The latest earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, occurred on Sunday (19/8/2018). As quoted in Kompas daily on Aug. 21, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency\'s (BMKG) head of early tsunami warning and earthquake information division, Daryono, said the earthquake on Sunday was a separate earthquake and not an aftershock.