PEGUNUNGAN PAPUA DISTRICT, PAPUA PEGUNUNGAN – The Ministry of Social Affairs held a training on making knock down houses in Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Mountainous Papua Province on Monday (26/8).
The training, which was attended by 50 people, took place at one of the Ministry of Social Affairs’ work units, namely the Jayapura Social Welfare Education and Training Center and in this activity, Social Minister Tri Rismaharini assigned Special Staff for Communication and Mass Media Don Rozano to Jayapura, Papua.
The training lasted four days by providing basic knowledge and skills to build knock down houses and the trainees were people from Pegunungan Bintang who previously lived in uninhabitable houses.
The Papuan community was given knock down house assistance after going through a series of assessments and the construction of knock down houses was an option because if building a conventional house the construction process is long and and the raw materials are difficult and expensive, the knock down house provided has an area of 6 meters x 6 meters, made of mild steel material and the assembly process is relatively fast but still strong and the house consists of 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
The knock down houses are designed to be easily disassembled and movable, “The 50 houses were built in seven days using mutual cooperation,” said Don Rozano.
Don Rozano said that the recipients of the knock down houses will also participate in building a school there that was previously damaged.
Some recipients of housing assistance have carpentry skills, but there are also those who do not have these skills, one of them is Barnabas Kakyarmabin, 31, who comes from Okaom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, and even so Barnabas is very enthusiastic about participating in the training, “I don’t have carpentry skills. But I also want to know how to assemble iron houses (knock down houses) so that I can build them in the village,” said Barnabas, saying that this was the first time that Pegunungan Bintang Regency had received housing assistance. “Mrs. Minister of Social Affairs, thank you very much so that we can have iron houses and later we can practice, we can build, and be occupied,” Barnabas continued.
Barnabas hopes to build, own and occupy the knock down house assisted by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
