BNPB bakal membangun rumah serta gedung sekolah baru bagi warga terdampak bencana pergerakan tanah di Kampung Cigombong. (Ayobandung.com/Restu Nugraha)
Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) bakal membangun rumah serta gedung sekolah baru bagi warga terdampak bencana pergerakan tanah di Kampung Cigombong, Desa Cibedug, Kecamatan Rongga, Kabupaten Bandung Barat (KBB).
Diketahui, bencana pergerakan tanah mengakibatkan 48 kepala keluarga (KK) dengan jumlah total 192 jiwa di Kampung Cigombong mengungsi.
Sebanyak 10 rumah roboh, 1 bangunan Kompleks SD runtuh, serta 38 rumah rumah lainnya terancam retak-retak dengan lebar antara 10 centimeter hingga 5 meter
"Kita siapkan anggaran untuk pembangunan rumah warga dan bangunan sekolah terdampak gerakan tanah. Jadi pemerintah daerah tinggal menyiapkan lahan relokasinya saja," kata Kepala BNPB Letjen TNI Suharyanto saat meninjau lokasi bencana pergerakan tanah di Cibedug Rongga, Selasa 5 Maret 2024.
Untuk membangun hunian relokasi ini, BNPB mengalokasikan anggaran Rp60 juta per satu unit rumah.
Bangunan rumah tersebut dipastikan merupakan hunian layak untuk ditempati. Meski begitu, BNPB tetap memperbolehkan warga untuk merombak bangunan jika mendapat dana lebih.
"Tiap rumah Rp60 juta, kalau nanti yang punya rumah ingin tambah boleh. Tapi biasanya dengan anggaran ini sudah layak," tambah Suharyanto.
Pembangunan rumah relokasi korban pergerakan tanah ini diperkirakan menyita waktu 2 bulan sampai 1 tahun.
Selama proses itu berlangsung, warga akan diberi bantuan dana tunggu hunian Rp500 ribu bagi tiap kepala keluarga (KK) per bulan.
Apabila tak diberikan langsung, dana tersebut juga bisa dikelola untuk dibuat hunian sementara (Huntara).
"Masyarakat terdampak jangan terlalu lama di tempat pengungsian. Pemerintah pusat juga menyiapkan dana tunggu hunian bagi tiap kepala keluarga sebesar Rp500 ribu per bulan. Itu bisa digunakan untuk kontrak rumah atau tinggal di rumah saudara. Atau batuan dari sumber lain dihimpun lalu dibangun Huntara sambil menunggu pembangunan hunian tetap selesai," tandasnya.
Ambassadors from the European Union member states should be expelled from Russia, former President Dmitry Medvedev said, citing their refusal to discuss election meddling with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Ambassadors of the EU states to Russia declined a meeting with the Russian minister of foreign affairs. Allegedly, following some advice from Brussels,” Medvedev wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. “This goes totally against the very idea of [the] existence of diplomatic missions and assignments of ambassadors.”
“All these ambassadors should be kicked out of Russia, and the level of diplomatic relations should be demoted,” Medvedev, who is currently the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote. The slammed EU diplomats as “political imbeciles who do not comprehend their real tasks.”
Speaking at a youth event in Russia’s Black Sea town of Sirius on Monday, Lavrov said that Moscow had “invited” EU envoys for a meeting in order to warn them against “meddling” in the upcoming presidential elections. The authorities have gathered “a lot of materials” about foreign support for “the opposition” in Russia, the minister said without elaborating.
“I simply wanted to tell the ambassadors that we are recommending not to conduct such activities,” Lavrov said. “And you know what? Two days before the [planned] event, we received a [diplomatic] letter saying, ‘We have decided not to attend.’”
Can you imagine diplomatic relations with countries whose ambassadors are afraid to attend a meeting with the minister of a country they are serving in?
Russian business news agency RBK cited the EU mission in the country as confirming that the envoys had ignored the invitation. “We were invited to discuss the relations between the EU and Russia, but now minister Lavrov is saying that he wanted to lecture us. This proves that we were right to decline the invitation,” the spokesperson said.
The EU mission also cited “the low level of trust” stemming from the disagreements over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, as well as the recent death of jailed opposition activist and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny.
The relations between Russia and many Western countries have hit historic lows in recent years, due to the standoff over Ukraine and other grievances, including the arguments over security in Europe and the enlargement of NATO.
Medvedev says 'Ukraine certainly is Russia'
Ukraine certainly is Russia, regardless of what Ukrainian politicians say, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.
"One of the former Ukrainian leaders said once that Ukraine was not Russia. This concept must disappear forever. Ukraine certainly is Russia," he pointed out in a lecture at the Knowledge First educational marathon.
Medvedev noted that there must be no more attempts to ignore Russian public opinion. "It rightfully regards Ukraine and its population as part of our all-Russian civilization. Had Ukraine escaped the stupidest trap set by the United States and its allies in order to counter our country with Ukraine’s assistance and use this very ‘anti-Russia entity,’ things might have been different," he emphasized.
According to the Russian Security Council deputy chairman, had there been no "jeering thieves, political doormats and blushful neo-Nazis" in the Ukrainian leadership, history could have gone a different way. "Had the Kiev ringleaders fulfilled the realistic conditions of the Minsk Agreements at some point, <...> then, perhaps, there would have been no need for the special military operation, as our president has rightly observed," Medvedev emphasized.
Mantan Gubernur Jawa Barat (Jabar) periode 1970-1975, Solihin Gautama Purwanegara atau Solihin GP/Net
Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajiun, kabar duka datang dari tokoh Sunda dan Jawa Barat. Mantan Gubernur Jawa Barat periode 1970-1975, Solihin Gautama Purwanegara atau Solihin GP meninggal dunia.
Almarhum Solihin GP tutup usia saat menjalani perawatan di salah satu rumah sakit di Bandung.
Kabar meninggalnya Solihin GP dibenarkan oleh jurubicara keluarga sekaligus Kabid Infokom Dewan Pemerhati Kehutanan dan Lingkungan Tatar Sunda (DPKLTS), Taufan Suranto.
"Innalillahi wainnailaihi rajiun. Telah berpulang ke Rahmatullah Letnan Jenderal TNI Purn. H. Solihin GP (Mang Ihin) sesepuh Jawa Barat dan Siliwangi, pejoeang lingkungan dan pendiri Dewan Pemerhati Lingkungan Tatar Sunda (DPKLTS) di usai 97 tahun pada hari Selasa, 5 Maret 2024 jam 03.09 WIB di RS Advent Bandung," kata Taufan, Selasa (5/3).
"Semoga almarhum husnul khatimah dan keluarga yang ditinggalkannya diberikan ketabahan, Aamiin YRA," imbuhnya.
Letnan Jenderal TNI Solihin Gautama Purwanegara sendiri, adalah mantan perwira Tentara Nasional Indonesia yang pernah menjabat sebagai Gubernur Jawa Barat dari 1970 sampai 1975. Ia mengawali karier militer ketika masa revolusi sebagai Komandan Tentara Keamanan Rakyat Kabupaten Bogor, kemudian bergabung dengan Divisi Siliwangi.
Mang Ihin, sapaan rahimahullah, dikenal sebagai orang yang memperhatikan masalah korupsi.
Sebab menurut beliau, korupsi dapat merusak ekonomi, merusak jiwa yang menjadi modal bangsa untuk merdeka.
Solihin GP tidak hanya dikenal sebagai pejabat pemerintah dan militer. Selama bertugas dia sangat dekat dengan masyarakat, khususnya petani.
Istilah padi Gogo Rancah menempel pada Solihin GP, lantaran menjadi solusi mengatasi krisis pangan di Indramayu, Jawa Barat. Dia termasuk yang berani berteriak, saat muncul praktik korupsi di awal pemerintahan Soeharto, yang disebut Banpres serta Bimas.
Berdasarkan informasi yang beredar di Media Sosial, Rumah Duka almarhum beralamat di Jl Cisitu Indah VI No 1 Dago, Bandung. Namun, rumah duka tersebut khusus untuk Keluarga Besar Almarhum Solihin GP yang akrab disapa Mang Ihin. Rumah duka, hanya menerima tamu keluarga besar dari pukul 07:00 sampai 09:00 WIB.
Selanjutnya, pada pukul 09:30 sampai 12:30 WIB, almarhum akan disemayamkan di MAKO II KODAM III Siliwangi Jl Sumbawa No 22 Bandung. Semua masyarakat umum yang ingin melayat jenazah, bisa datang ke lokasi ini. Pemakaman Alm Mang Ihin sendiri, akan dilakukan di TMP Cikutra Bandung pada pukul 13:30 WIB.
Russian servicemen demonstrate their military superiority and precision in a combat mission targeting Ukrainian positions in the Zaporozhye region.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has released footage showing military crews of T-80BV battle tanks destroying Ukrainian tactical positions in the Zaporozhye area of the special military operation zone.
T-80BV tank crews carried out high precision strikes, using reconnaissance data gathered by drone operators who identified the target and later adjusted the strikes.
Watch Russian Su-34 Fighter-Bomber Destroy Cluster of Enemy Troops and Strongholds
The Su-34, also known as the "Fullback", is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather fighter-bomber designed and manufactured by the Russian Sukhoi Corporation. It features advanced avionics, precision-guided munitions, and a large internal bomb bay, making it a versatile and potent weapon in modern air warfare
The Russian of Defense Ministry has released footage of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber crew destroying a cluster of enemy troops and strongholds near Krasny Liman.
According to the ministry, the Russian Air Force Su-34 crew launched a strike with FAB-500 high-explosive aerial bombs. After receiving reconnaissance confirmation that the targets were destroyed, the pilots returned safely to the airfield from which they had taken off.
Russian forces destroy another US-made Abrams tank near Avdeyevka — top brass
Russian forces destroyed another US-made Abrams tank of the Ukrainian army in the Avdeyevka area near Donetsk over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
Units of Russia’s Battlegroup Center continued taking more advantageous sites and positions in the Avdeyevka area in their well-coordinated operations over the past 24 hours. They inflicted damage on manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 24th and 110th mechanized, 71st jaeger and 103rd territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Novokalinovo, Mayorsk, Berdychi and Rozovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, it said.
"The enemy lost over 490 personnel, two tanks, including a US-made Abrams tank, four infantry fighting vehicles, among them three US-manufactured Bradley vehicles, three armored combat vehicles and 12 motor vehicles. In counter-battery fire, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery gun, an Msta-B howitzer, a Gvozdika motorized artillery system and three D-30 howitzers were destroyed," the ministry specified.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported about the destruction of the first US-made Abrams tank in the special military operation in Ukraine on February 27.
Russian forces improve frontline positions in Kupyansk area over past day
Russian forces improved their tactical position in the Kupyansk area, destroying roughly 160 enemy troops over the past day, the ministry reported.
"In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Western Battlegroup improved their tactical position and inflicted damage by firepower on amassed manpower and hardware of the Ukrainian army’s 43rd and 66th mechanized, 57th motorized infantry and 115th territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Makeyevka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Ivanovka, Chugunovka and Sinkovka in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kupyansk direction over the past 24 hours totaled roughly 160 personnel, 3 motor vehicles and an Msta-B howitzer, it specified.
Russian forces eliminate 360 Ukrainian troops in Donetsk area over past day
Russian forces eliminated roughly 360 Ukrainian troops, two armored vehicles and a multiple rocket launcher of the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Battlegroup conducted active combat operations and inflicted damage on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 28th mechanized, 46th airmobile, 79th air assault and 214th territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka, Georgiyevka and Maksimilyanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 360 personnel, 2 armored personnel carriers, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, a UK-made FH70 howitzer and an Msta-B howitzer, it specified.
Kiev loses over 320 troops in south Donetsk area in past day
The Ukrainian military lost more than 320 troops in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"In the south Donetsk direction, units of the Battlegroup East inflicted damage in their well-coordinated operations on the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 72nd mechanized brigade and 128th territorial defense brigade in areas near the communities of Urozhainoye, Vladimirovka and Vodyanoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 320 personnel, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 7 motor vehicles," the ministry said.
Russian forces destroy 85 Ukrainian troops in Kherson area over past day
Russian forces destroyed roughly 85 Ukrainian troops and three US-made artillery systems in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.
"The enemy’s losses totaled as many as 85 personnel, three motor vehicles, two HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and an M777 artillery system of US manufacture and a Gvozdika motorized artillery gun," the ministry said.
In the Kherson direction, units of Russia’s Dnepr Battlegroup inflicted damage on massed manpower and military hardware of the Ukrainian army’s 65th and 118th mechanized and 128th mountain assault brigades and the 14th National Guard brigade near the settlements of Rabotino, Verbovoye and Pyatikhatki in the Zaporozhye Region, it specified.
Russian forces wipe out two Ukrainian UAV control posts over past day
Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) control posts and struck enemy manpower and equipment in 128 areas over the past day, the ministry reported.
"Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groupings of forces destroyed two UAV control posts near the settlements of Novokalinovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Antonovka in the Kherson Region, and also struck the Ukrainian army’s manpower and military equipment in 128 areas," the ministry said.
Russian air defenses down 81 Ukrainian military drones over past day
Russian air defense forces shot down 81 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past day, the ministry reported.
"During the last 24-hour period, air defense capabilities shot down 81 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near the settlements of Orlinskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Chervonogorka and Samoilovka in the Zaporozhye Region, Gladkovka and Krynki in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.
In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 575 Ukrainian warplanes, 267 helicopters, 14,193 unmanned aerial vehicles, 476 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,348 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,231 multiple rocket launchers, 8,286 field artillery guns and mortars and 19,325 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.
A Palestinian woman reacts in front of the Abu Anza family home destroyed in an overnight Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 3 March 2024 (Said Khatib/AFP)
Health Ministry says “dozens” killed and wounded in “horrific massacre” of aid-seekers at Kuwaiti roundabout in Gaza City.
An Israeli air strike on an aid truck in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killed at least ten people and injured several others on Sunday, Palestine's Wafa news agency reported.
Al Jazeera said the bombing targeted "the truck belonging to a Kuwaiti association in the Al-Brook area on Al-Bahr Street.
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Hamas said the attack indicated that "the occupation's continued targeting of aid convoys expresses an unprecedented level of criminality and brutality in contemporary history".
The attack comes a few days after another Israeli attack on aid seekers killed more than a hundred people in Gaza City.
Residents had gathered seeking food on 29 February from an aid convoy, with the area completely cut off by Israeli forces.
The military claims it did not strike the convoy and that most deaths were due to a stampede.
These findings contradict the words of Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses, who said people were indiscriminately shot at by Israeli forces while waiting for food aid in Gaza City.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 15 children have died in the past few days from malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City hours after UNICEF chief warned of acute malnutrition territory.
Aljazeera's correspondent on the ground in Gaza reports that more than 40 injured people arrived at Al Awda Hospital following the bombing of a house in the central Gaza camp that was sheltering displaced Palestinians.
The majority of those killed were women and children, reports Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, after Israeli forces bombed a house where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the central Gaza refugee camp.
At least 10 were killed and many others wounded, Wafa said.
Iran says executed ‘Mossad terrorist’ was arrested abroad
Iran’s state television says the still-unnamed “terrorist” who was executed this morning for allegedly working for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad was arrested in a neighbouring country.
It did not say which country or whether Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or Ministry of Intelligence were aided by the other country’s government in bringing him back.
But state television showed footage of the hooded man being taken by Iranian officers from the plane that brought him back 13 days after leaving Iran.
The individual, only identified as Saeed, was allegedly recruited online by Mossad four years ago, Iran alleges.
He was said by state television to have set up a warehouse some 1.6 kilometres (1 mile) away from a Ministry of Defence site in Isfahan that came under attack by four quadcopters guided remotely by “Israeli satellites” on the night of January 28, 2023.
Truce talks are expected to resume in Egypt on Sunday but the details beyond a possible six-week pause in fighting remain unclear despite US officials’ claims a ceasefire is near. A senior Hamas official told AFP on Sunday that a ceasefire may be secured “within 24 to 48 hours” if Israel accepted their demands.
A recently leaked recording of senior German officers discussing a potential attack on the Crimean Bridge leaves no doubt that Berlin is preparing for a military conflict with Moscow, the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, warned on his Telegram channel on Sunday.
Medvedev, who is currently deputy head of the Russian Security Council, was commenting on audio that surfaced earlier this week. The story was broken on Friday by RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan, who said she had received the recording from Russian security officials.
The 38-minute-long recording, reportedly from February 19, contained a conversation between four officers of the German Air Force, including its commander, Lt. Gen. Ingo Gerhartz. They were discussing operational and targeting details of Taurus long-range missiles which Berlin was considering supplying to Kiev. The officers particularly explored the option of the missiles being used against the Crimean Bridge and spoke about maintaining plausible deniability in the event of such an attack.
The leak sparked a major scandal in Germany, with many senior MPs calling for the nation’s counterintelligence efforts to be enhanced. The German Defense Ministry confirmed the authenticity of the recording but neither the military nor Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government have commented on the plans discussed by the senior officers.
On Sunday, Medvedev assumed that Berlin would now try to claim it had known nothing of the military discussions taking place. He also stated that the German authorities could call the leaked conversation a purely hypothetical one and say that the military was “obsessed with playing mock battles.”
“Any attempts to present the Bundeswehr officers’ conversation as just a ‘game’ with missiles and tanks would be a malicious lie,” the former president warned. “Germany is preparing for a war with Russia.”
Medvedev also said that the position of Scholz’s cabinet might eventually be irrelevant when it comes to the standoff between Moscow and Berlin. “History knows many examples when the military were capable of taking decisions for their civilian superiors about starting a war or just instigating [conflict],” he added. He particularly pointed to a hypothetical provocation scenario, in which the German military might convince Scholz that Russian forces had launched a missile “at Berlin,” which had been intercepted.
Various German officials have recently raised the issue of a potential war with Russia. Earlier on Sunday, the nation’s health minister, Karl Lauterbach, said that Germany should improve its healthcare system for it to be able to swiftly respond to “major disasters” like a military conflict.
Last month, German general Carsten Breuer called for a “change in mentality” in society, insisting the nation needed to prepare for a potential war with Russia in five years. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said last November that the country must become “war-capable,” and stated again in January that Berlin and all its NATO allies should arm themselves more actively to be able to “wage a war that is forced upon us.”
German Defense Minister on Leak: Discussing Scenarios Does Not Mean Giving Taurus Missiles to Kiev
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Sunday that an audio recording published by Russian media showed German senior officers discussing "different scenarios" of events, not plans, and their conversation does not mean a "green light" to transferring Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
"The officers were doing what they were here to do: they were thinking about different scenarios, without making plans in any way. There should be no doubt: this did not and does not mean a green light for the use of Taurus missiles — neither from (German) Chancellor (Olaf Scholz) nor from me," Pistorius said during a special address on the published audio recording.
He also expressed hope that the first results of an investigation into the audio recording will be ready early next week.
"There are no final results (of the probe) yet. I expect them to appear within the first few days of next week," Pistorius said during a special address on the leaked audio recording.
He added that the publication was "part of an information war" that Russia was allegedly conducting and was aimed at undermining the country's unity.
"This is meant to reinforce the legend, the fairy tale that we are working on a war against Russia, which is completely absurd," Pistorius said, adding that Germany was working exclusively on providing aid to Ukraine.
At the same time, Pistorius said he was unaware of any other leaks other than the recent one.
