Anies Opens City Halls to Collect Aid for Quake-Hit Victims

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has opened the City Hall as a central place to collect aid for victims of devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Palu and Donggala.

Anies welcomed humanitarian organizations such as ACT, NU Peduli, Palang Merah, and Dompet dhuafa to set their booths in the city hall starting today, October 1.

“We prepare the place. So the public will be easier to give aids,” Anies said after attending the ceremony of Pancasila Sanctity Day in Lapangan Monas today.

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Anies did not mention until when the City Hall remained open to store relief aids for earthquake victims. However, he expected Jakartans could give contributions to help the disaster victims.

As reported earlier, earthquakes followed by a tsunami hit Donggala and Palu, Central Sulawesi on Friday, September 28. The 7.4 magnitude quake with a depth of 10 kilometers, 27 kilometers east of northeast Donggala, occurred at 17:02 local times followed by the tsunami as high as 0.5 to 6 meters in the west coast of Central Sulawesi.

The death toll as recorded by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) amounted to 832 people and expected to rise.

Anies Baswedan went on to say that the city government has allocated relief funds at Rp60 billion and deployed 83 personnel to Central Sulawesi. The volunteers would help the first phase of the recovery process in Palu and Donggala.

M JULNIS FIRMANSYAH