Garut (ANTARA News) - Most of the flood refugees in Talegong sub-district, Garut district, West Java, have now returned to their homes and resumed their usual activities in the fields and plantations, local authorities said.

The skies were now bright and clear, allowing the refugees to perform their daily activities and clean up their houses from the mud left behind by the flood waters, Talagong sub-district head Rena Sudrajat said here Friday.

The villagers has returned to their daily activities after being forced to stay at four different flood emergency camp sites, since the flood occurred last January 29.

Some of the refugees also used the moment to visit their relatives in other areas like Paledang sub-district.

After working together to clean up the mud brought by the floodwaters and building an emergency bridge, part of the villagers had also returned to their daily job of tapping palm trees to extract the material to make palm sugar, Sudrajat said.

The palm sugar making activity itself takes place near their emergency camps and the sugar is marketed by their wives afterward to supplement the family`s income. (*)

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