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View all search resultsAs Palu and its surrounding areas are rebuilding themselves brick by brick, the government has hatched a plan to build a seawall along the beaches facing the bay, intended as protection against incoming tsunami waves.
“Try to live in a tent for a year, then tell me how to be strong,” a survivor told The Jakarta Post. Even though the woman, Sri Tini Haris, still has her husband and children, like others she is struggling in a “second disaster” as she desperately seeks to resume some normalcy.
The disaster destroyed more than 110,000 houses across Central Sulawesi. For Sri and other survivors, life since the disaster has been a never-ending struggle. Many of them have described the slow recovery process as a "second disaster".
Leaders of 13 regencies and cities in the province were open to investment, especially now that Central Sulawesi was in the process of rebuilding following a string of natural disasters that hit the region, Rusli said.
The situation in Banggai Raya in Central Sulawesi has returned to normal following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the province on Friday evening, as people have started to return to their homes after seeking higher ground in anticipation of a tsunami.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) lifted a tsunami warning it had released earlier after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Morowali, Central Sulawesi, on Friday at around 6:40 p.m.
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