IPB University Students Discuss the Existence of Stage Houses, Study of PT Sentul City Tbk’s Involvement in Landslide Mitigation

IPB University students who are members of the Student Creativity Programme for Social Humanities Research (PKM-RSH) have made presentations and discussions to PT Sentul City Tbk. The meeting discussed the involvement of PT Sentul City Tbk which can be used as baseline data to formulate policy strategies towards the existence of Lamban Langgakh (stilt house) as landslide disaster mitigation in the midst of modernisation transformation.

“Geologically, the landslide disaster in Bojongkoneng Village, Bogor is caused by the plate that makes Bojong Koneng and surrounding areas prone to land shifts. Last year there was a three-metre land shift. We are working with Habitat on a house renovation programme,” said Budi Pruwaanto Hendricus, Deputy Land Division of PT Sentul City Tbk.

Budi said that the people who live mainly in Babakan Madang Sub-district, including Bojongkoneng Village, which has forests and rubber plantations, are plantation communities.

“Bojongkoneng Village in the future will have a master plan for a location permit of 2200 hectares. Due to the extreme contours, we can only maximise 40 per cent of the effective land that will be used as settlements,” said Budi.

He continued, the master plan in the property deals with efficient land, so even though the houses are not in the form of houses on stilts, namely concrete houses, but are limited to which ones become roads, settlements and buffers so as to minimise the impact of landslides or land shifts.

Budi also said that PT Sentul City Tbk has made clusters surrounded by foundations to strengthen the soil structure so that the land does not move. However, such engineering is very expensive so people in the past used houses on stilts. (*/Lp) (IAAS/RUM)