A member of the Indonesian special operations Mobile Brigade Corps patrols Petobo neighborhood hit by the earthquake and liquefaction in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) - The young man standing atop a mound of grey mud and debris on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, waiting for an excavator he hoped would dig out the bodies of his parents, voiced the exasperation many feel in his earthquake-plagued country.
"This is something that happens all the time in Indonesia. Why aren't we getting better at handling it?" Bachtiar cried as the machine clanked through the ruins of someone's kitchen in the city of Palu.
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