TEMPO.CO, Mataram - A number of Lombok earthquake victims are having difficulty in getting tarps to be used to construct emergency tent. Tarp prices on the market currently reaches IDR 1 million, higher than the usual IDR 450,000.
"We have been looking everywhere, even to Cakranegara Market in Mataram since the big earthquake on August 5, until now, we have not got [the tarp] yet,”" Nur Saad, a resident of Senaru Village, North Lombok said on Wednesday, August 22, 2018.
People in Lombok are looking for 6x7 meters tarps that can accommodate 8 people. "The government has not provided any assistance in the form of tarps, so we have to look for it. But it is very difficult and the price increased," Saad said.
Saad said that tarps sent by the government were only given to the same people. As a result, they must make use of the remaining tarps from their agricultural land or livestock pens that have been damaged.
The scarcity of tarps has also caused fights between victims. "I got used clothes for 33 donation posts, one of them was a used tarp. Two residents scrambled to fight," Saad said.
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