Bogor, W Java, Nov. 4 -- At SMPN 2 Rao Utara, students begin each school day in borrowed classrooms at a nearby elementary school while workers rebuild their school building, damaged by last year's natural disaster.

The host school has opened spare classrooms to its neighbors, allowing its own pupils to continue lessons as usual while displaced students keep learning during the reconstruction period.

The school was one of five recovery sites visited on Thursday, October 29, by a task force team overseeing post-disaster reconstruction across Aceh, North Sumatra, and West Sumatra.

The team was led by Marine Corps Col. Daniel Setiawan and included Gunawan Setiadi of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency and expert Muhammad Teguh Ariffai...