Paramilitary units and Assam police officers have erected temporary guard posts outside many of the destroyed or looted villages, promising security.
Others conduct spot checks on 12,000 temporary staff to guard against corruption.
The state-run news agency, Antara, reported that 25,000 people, mainly Madurese, had taken refuge in tightly guarded temporary shelters near military compounds, police stations and local administration offices in Sampit and in Palangkaraya, the provincial capital.
"We will not give in otherwise all this won't have meant anything," he told France Info radio on Monday, from the magazine's heavily guarded temporary offices at Libération newspaper.
When he left the temporary home, a guard saw him, approached and told him to leave the camp.
Two bored but courteous gendarmes guarded a temporary fence, blocking access to the sand.
He was a 33-year-old security guard on temporary hire who lived with his mother.
As Justine's friends fed quarters into the meter guarding their temporary wonderland, she peddled the bike blender, sporting a T-shirt that read, "Girls Gone Green".
Only minutes earlier, Mr. Jewell, who was working a temporary job as a guard, had spotted the abandoned green knapsack that contained the bomb, called it to the attention of the police, and started moving visitors away from the area.
