Rehabilitation and reconstruction of community housing post-West Nusa Tenggara Earthquake 2018 (A case of Lauk Rurung Timuk and Lauk Rurung Barat Sub-villages, Sembalun Bumbung, Sembalun, East Lombok)

Three strong earthquakes occurred and damaged the infrastructures and human settlements at some regions of West Nusa Tenggara Province in July and August 2018. This paper describes the policy and action taken by Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MPWH), Republic of Indonesia, to assist in the rehabilitation and reconstruction, specifically for the housing. The process started from early September 2018 by Civil Servant Candidate from MPWH together with the society. The action was comprised of three phases: socialization, design, and construction. Those phases are discussed in this paper along with their particular obstacles. The most critical phase is deducted. All the resources were gathered from the law applied in Indonesia, the official instruction of implementation, the technical instructions, interviews and volunteers’ point of views. This paper employed qualitative approach through observation, survey, group discussion, and interview to analyze factors that significantly affected the implementation of rehabilitation and reconstruction of houses by referring to the theory. The results of the study suggest that the socialization phase is found to be the most decisive