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Re:Act in Diwai Makam village Aceh - update September 2005 |
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Sunday, 18 September 2005 |
An update on the development of an embankment, temporary barracks and community housing in Diwai Makam village by the facilitators of Re:Act, translated and summarised by the Max Lock Centre, based on correspondence with Re:Act, 19 September 2005.
Embankment project
The embankment development to protect the village from floods and high water tide has finally received funding from the Red Cross Federation (the Canadian Red Cross) through their livelihoods programme. This is the first funding for an infrastructure project by the Federation after they were finally convinced that this project would eventually support the livelihoods of the local community.
Temporary barracks
Three barracks funded by World Vision Indonesia (WVI), are being built in the village to temporarily accommodate survivors of Diwai Makam village scattered in remote areas, the community who have not been allocated for barracks, the people who will become building construction workers and security guards of the barracks.
The barracks will also accommodate the facilitators to help them work more intensively and representatively with the local community as required by WVI. However, once housing construction is completed, the barracks can be converted into temporary public buildings (such as village registration office or school) before being dismantled over the next two years.
The accommodation of survivors in the barracks also aims to speed up the construction of electricity by (the National Electrical Company (PLN)) and clean water by (Drinking Water Company (PAM)) who are currently reluctant to initiate the work because the village is considered under-populated.
Re:Act is currently looking for a possible funding for wind and solar generator electricity for these buildings, as the area has prevailing strong winds and abundance of sunlight. If materialised, this technology will be the first in the Aceh province.
Community housing
The local community has been consulted for the design of their houses. This led to ten designs and finally two were selected as prototypes. One of these is designed by an architect volunteer Achmad Tardiana from Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), which features a brick and re-enforced concrete housing structure on stilts. The height of the space underneath the house will be high enough for shop area, vehicle parking space and other small-scale economic activities. It then can be easily enclosed with walls for additional rooms in future. Although the housing area on stilts is 36 sq m as stipulated by the guidelines of emergency houses in Aceh, the ground level room will bring additional space of total 70 sq m. In other words, it is already part of future housing extension.
These two prototypes will be built on the village land as future models for the local community to build their own houses. Once built, these models will be owned by the village and used for the community?s reading rooms and other communal activities.
There is a big challenge ahead faced by the facilitators in consolidating the local community for the housing construction. They also have to work with the pressure of misperception about this humanitarian initiative as simply being a commercial project.
Click here to download photos and project brief file 1 - 688 kb
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