Unless the Indonesian government carries out a comprehensive recovery, hundreds of thousands of Merapi volcano eruption victims are certain to face economic and social destruction.
鈥淥ne of the worst impacts of the eruption is the destruction of people鈥檚 livelihood; the land cannot be used to grow plants and economic activity virtually stops,鈥 said Agus Priyono after visiting disaster relief centres set up by the Poor People鈥檚 Union (SRMI) in Magelang municipality.