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Support for Access to Clean Water in Kupang, South Central Timor, and North Central Timor, PTTEP: Water is an Essential Community Need, Together We Make an Effort and Strive

30 Mar 2022

SOE, 2022. Simultaneously with monitoring activities for the stunting prevention partnership program, PTTEP together with the Secretariate of Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, and representatives of the regional government, visited and inaugurated access to clean water for the community. "PTTEP endeavors to carry out drilling and set up pipelines, to help people who have water difficulties, because water is the basic need of the community. This process is not easy, from the team's report, we have been working on this for more than 6 months," explained Irwan Mardelis, Public Affairs, PTTEP Indonesia.

The activity provides access to clean water for the community in Kupang Regency, Kab. TTS, and Kab. TTU, as part of the stunting prevention partnership program activity. "We are collaborating with the village government, coordinating with related offices in the district, we recorded a minimum of 1,200 people from 3 villages, can access clean water, from well drilling and pipeline activities that have been carried out, with collaboration we heard that this activity will be continued by the village government, so that there can be more and wider beneficiaries," explained Herdiansah, Director of Dompet Dhuafa Social Enterprise.

According to Nathaniel Bassa, Partnership National Engagement, Team for the Acceleration of Prevention of Dwarf Children (TP2AK) the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, access to clean water is one of the preventive measures in preventing stunting. "We hope that such activities can be replicated more widely, so that more people will have access to clean water," he concluded.