Semarang – The financial losses suffered by Central Java province last year due to various natural disasters has been calculated at Rp 51.6 billion, with the death toll at 19. However, there were 133 in January this year due to a massive landslide.

According to the head of the provincial welfare agency, Ristanto, the death toll in January's disaster also included the 76 victims of the Banjarnegara landslide, which covered most of the village of Gunungraja.

The financial mostly due to the damage in infrastructures and public facilities including roads, bridges, irrigation ditches, dams, and the people's houses.

Unfortunately, the funding allocated to cover such problems, like disasters, was Rp 19 billion for 2005 and Rp 25 billion for 2006.

In this case, according to Ristanto, priorities would be given for the rehabilitation of public facilities, including the relocation of disaster survivors.