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26 Oct 06: Frustrations of Yogyakarta locals revealed - "government should be ashamed"
The plight of hundreds of thousands of people still houseless after Yogyakarta's 27 May 06 earthquake in Java is due not only to Indonesian Government delay, but also "donor fatigue" by first world people which has left aid organisations with a shortfall in the funding.
23 Oct 06: Houses still not replaced 5 months after Yogya earthquake - Central and local Indonesian Governments have failed to replace houses destroyed or severely damaged in the Yogyakarta earthquake which affected more people than in Aceh from the 2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami. And now it gets worse for the affected Javanese, as the rainy season is starting.
Yogyakarta earthquake: Homes of 2.7m affected - plan reviewed 15 Aug 06
Although it hasn’t attracted the global donations response of tsunami-hit Aceh and Nias, the Yogyakarta earthquake directly affected an estimated 2.7 million people or 631,000 households needing transitional dwellings before the September-October rainy season.
RedR in Yogyakarta - reports from engineers team which went 2 June after the 27 May earthquake
Peter Bowman and Howard Sullivan undertook critical infrastructure assessment. Tom Ryan and David Swan assessed watsan needs.
After the first week
Week 2 brings logistics shift
5 June 06: The first week started with organising the shipping in of a 60-bed Red Cross hospital from tsunami affected Aceh which was set up in Yogyakarta area within 48 hours of the catastrophe. Now there's a shift in logistics of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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AC's first reports:
Big aid organisations were ready
30 May 2006: Red Cross/Red Crescent society members were able to respond immediately after the force 6.3 earthquake hit on Saturday, calling on supplies sufficient for up to 25,000 people that IFRC ( their International Federation) already had in Jakarta, Surabaya and Padang warehouses, ready in case Mount Merapi might erupt. (Includes reports of others already on the ground, like Oxfam.)
Trucks and planes rush to quake-hit Yogyakarta
29 May 2006: Killing at least three thousand and making more than 100,000 homeless, Indonesia’s latest big quake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale last Saturday has brought trucks rushing across Java from Jakarta.
Earlier reports from the Indonesian volunteer reporters' site Indonesia-Relief Org ( for which AC is Aust/NZ correspondent).
Frustrations of Yogyakarta locals revealed - "government should be ashamed"
Soryantoro says the government should be ashamed of the delay in distributing funds. He says it seems the central government does not care about a small place like Bantul. Soryantoro says the people of Bantul are frustrated and disappointed that the government has not learned the lessons of Aceh.
Soryantoro is a 25-year old construction contractor from one of the hardest-hit areas of the 27 May 06 Java earthquake. Building bamboo houses for an aid agency, he makes 300
shelters in one week when the aid organisation said to make 200. The government vowed to distribute reconstruction money soon after the disaster, but funds only began to trickle into villagers' hands in October. Justifying the government's position, Budi Atmaji Adiputro of the Coordinating Agency for National Disaster Relief says the government was slower to distribute aid for the Yogyakarta earthquake because it took two months to ensure the money would be used efficiently, and to develop earthquake-proof designs and hire skilled labor. "We build the houses with the standard of public works, so it of course takes time," he said.
But international aid workers racing to help houseless people before the November rainy season say the government has been indecisive about its reconstruction strategy. "As soon as it starts raining, the usable space in most of the villages is going to drop by about 80 percent," said UN Development Program advisor Pete Mansfield. Some 50,000 people will remain without adequate housing into 2007, ad that's at the current (pre-rain) rate of building. At least 100,000 families are still living in tents as the season of torrential rains approaches - that's about 800,000 people.
Jules Korsten, head of the International Organization for Migration in Yogyakarta, points to "donor fatigue" to explain the shortage of funds. There have been several major disasters in the past few years around the world that needed aid, and donors are tiring of the effort. He says some donors also are not satisfied with how recovery funds were spent in Aceh. Many aid agencies are preparing to leave the area as funding dries up.
There are worries this could create a health crisis if many medical groups leave. Health statistics already reflect the strain of outdoor living. The rate of acute respiratory infection in Bantul is five to six times higher than normal. As the wet season approaches, health officials expect that number to rise. Dengue fever and malaria also thrive in rainy conditions.
More (23 Oct 06):
http://voanews.com/english/2006-10-24-voa8.cfm
Houses still not replaced 5 months after Yogya earthquake
Yogyakarta - The disaster the world forgot too soon
Source: The Age 23 Oct 06
Julia Suryakusuma and Tim Lindsey
October 23, 2006
Driving slowly through the narrow streets of the village, we passed houses in various stages of ruin: many largely destroyed, some reduced to rubble. Buildings that remained teetered precariously, leaning walls propped up with bamboo poles.
Children scurried around tiny, flimsy tents set up to shelter the homeless. Elderly people lay on planks across the rubble with makeshift plastic awnings their only protection from the sun. Mothers with children at their breast sat on piles of broken bricks, all that was left of their homes. Outside each village, makeshift placards announced how many had been killed and injured.
No, this isn't Kashmir, Afghanistan or Iraq. It was Imogiri, just outside Indonesia's cultural capital and tourist magnet, Yogyakarta. The area was hit by a massive earthquake on May 27, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale. It lasted for only a minute but, more than five months later, the countryside is still devastated, with 354,000 houses lost.
Aid has arrived from around the world, including, among many others, Indonesian businesses, the Kuwaiti Red Crescent, AusAID and the usual major donors, such as Oxfam, but progress has been slow and patchy at best. Oxfam says Indonesian governments, central and local, have so far failed to build a single house, and locals are angry, claiming the money promised by their government has yet to reach them.
Tragically, the situation is about to get much, much worse. In a week or so, the rainy season will start. The flimsy tents will do little to protect the homeless. Today's dust and rubble will quickly turn to mud and flood, and shattered septic and drainage systems will produce disease.
Already respiratory illness is increasing and experts predict more of that and the horrors of mosquito-borne disease as well. This means the future offers little but still more suffering for the rural poor of Java, who this year have also faced eruptions from Mount Merapi near Yogya and a catastrophic mud-flood in Sidoarjo.
The initial outflow of sympathy, funds and supplies during the first few weeks after the quake, while heart-warming, was insufficient. It is estimated that more than 11/2 million people are still homeless in central Java.
Incredibly, most Indonesians don't know or care much about Yogya's earthquake - foreigners even less so. The tsunami, by contrast, killed tourists in Thailand and Sri Lanka - and ended the war in Aceh - so it caught the attention of Westerners, who gave generously. Unfortunately, the tsunami seems to have exhausted compassion and disposable cash for the poor of South-East Asia.
Yogyakarta earthquake: Homes of 2.7m affected - plan reviewed 15 Aug 06
In
The 27 May earthquake had its heaviest impact on housing, with 354,000 homes down, rendering 1.5 million homeless. Another 278,000 houses were damaged affecting 1.2 million people. All are victims to the earthquake and a traditional building culture complacent about earthquake risk – with masonry walls made of burnt bricks and weak mortar, sometimes negligent workmanship and minimal compliance with building codes.
Although it hasn’t
attracted the global donations response of tsunami-hit Aceh and Nias, the
Yogyakarta earthquake directly affected an estimated 2.7 million people or 631,000
households because of Java’s denser population and the damage suffered to homes,
schools, health centres and village water supply and sanitation. It impacted on
more than a third of all the 6.9 million people in the nine districts.
Shelter
plan
Aid organisations
assisting Indonesia’s rebuilding effort are planning in terms of tools,
materials and technical guidance to support the ‘gotong royong’ or ‘mutual
self-help method, where local people take the first step, often leaving less
vocal, more vulnerable poor people waiting in the wings.
The aid organisations
help the local work with technical advice and tools to salvage re-useable materials.
Their Emergency Shelter and the Early Recovery plans involves sectors, called clusters,
in which aid organisations led by IOM in the technical working group are
coordinated with Indonesia’s central GoI and local civil-societies. The group
looks for materials accessed locally as much as possible, plus re-use of
salvaged materials, tarpaulins, plastic sheeting, bamboo, fastenings and tools.
In addition to
procuring materials, the group supports strategies for hazard resistant
construction and restoring village infrastructure.
The group estimates
materials for 100,000 house sets can be provided through existing agencies’
capabilities, for those unable to source it themselves – particularly families that
need to move from a tent or tarpaulin.
Financial
shortfall
The aid organisations required
$15m materials finance with IOM needing $5.3m, UNDP $5m, CHF $3.75m and
UN-HABITAT $0.6m.
The
Their stocks expended for
the
Transitional shelter is
more than a tent but less than a house. Group data shows the need for 306,412
units, while
With an average family
size of 4.3, this affects as many as 1.5 million people.
For the 'Rumah Cikal' early
recovery dwellings, $15m was still unmet meaning 89pc of the budget was not
covered.
The situation looked
grim for other phases too. For agriculture $4.1m was still unmet, meaning the budget
was totally uncovered. In other clusters, Livelihood assistance generally
needed $8.5m requirement which was covered by contributions and commitments.
But Education cluster was only 15.5pc covered with $1.8m unmet. Emergency
shelter was 51.4pc covered with $8.1m unmet. Food and nutrition cluster was 18.1pc
covered with $4.5m unmet. Health was 27.7pc covered with $9.6m unmet. Logistics was 41.7pc
covered with $1.4m unmet. Watsan 45pc covered with $3.4m unmet. Total unmet in all sectors $58.6m.
RedR in Yogyakarta - reports from engineers team which went 2 June after the 27 May earthquake
The team has carried out audit assessments of the badly affected districts in both provinces where the major damage has been reported. They provided basic training to the NGO group in recognition and identification of structural distress for the various types of buildings with emphasis on safety issues. They also provided some basic geology training to assist in understanding why some areas were much more badly affected than others. About 330 schools have been destroyed, and a further 1500 significantly damaged. No schools were occupied at the time of the
earthquake (6:00 am). However if the event had occurred during school hours many casualties would have occurred. The assessment is focused on providing recommendations for improvements in the design, construction and materials used in school and health buildings to improve their safety in subsequent
earthquakes.
Tom Ryan and David Swan joined a small AusAID team to work with UNICEF to assess the water supply and sanitation needs of affected areas. With others, they did a preliminary assessment based on the local knowledge of the government bodies. They formed two teams and visited each of the five affected districts. This was the basis for a draft report to UNICEF indicating the level of destruction to water supplies, septic systems and so on. The initial assessment concentrated on reticulated supplies managed by district level PDAMs (comparable to municipal water authorities). There is good information on PDAM supplies but poor information on non-PDAM supplies such as private wells and toilets. To fill this data gap the team organised a rapid watsan damage assessment survey to be carried out by local non-government organisations (NGOs). A damage assessment form was drawn up in consultation with the provincial government officials, and three teams of approximately 70 students were trained to collect this information. This is expected to take about ten days to collect and will continue after the team returns to Australia. The information will be used for emergency response planning as well as for longer-term watsan development needs.
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After the first week
5 June 06
The first week started with organising the shipping in of a 60-bed Red Cross hospital from tsunami affected Aceh which was set up in Yogyakarta area within 48 hours of the catastrophe. Now there's a shift in logistics of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, as IFRC assesses how best to support the Indonesian Ministry of Health in providing long-term rehabilitation for the injured, as well as effective treatment for those with secondary infections of their wounds. And they are looking at how to help replace medical supplies that have been used up in local hospitals.
"The first week of the operation was very much focused on emergency evacuation and medical treatment," said Mijanur Rahman, a Federation relief delegate, "But shelter and non-food items will become very much the priority in the second."
Almost 3,000 tents have already been distributed in seven districts around Yogyakarta, providing shelter to some 15,000 people. But Rahman said that some 20,000 families – roughly 100,000 people – will have received tents and tarpaulins by the end of the second week.
At least 18 flights carrying hundreds of tonnes of relief supplies have landed in the affected area, mostly flying in from Medan in Sumatra, where disaster-preparedness stockpiles have been maintained since the tsunami.
The airlift has been coordinated since Tuesday by a logistics Emergency Response Unit (ERU) from the British Red Cross.
"It's been a phenomenally busy week and there's a lot more to be done," said British Red Cross logistician Justin Cuckow. " We have an ambitious operation here but we're confident that the resources and strategy are in place to deliver this assistance where it's most needed."
Yet for all the sophistication of a large-scale international aid operation, the backbone of the humanitarian response to the quake continues to be provided by the army of volunteers of the Indonesian Red Cross, known as Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI).
Some 500 unpaid PMI workers began dispensing aid within two hours of the quake, and every day they are still hard at work, loading trucks and delivering relief goods.
According to latest estimates, at least 6,000 people were killed and more than 50,000 injured by the 6.3 magnitude quake, which hit Java on 27 May. Bantul district, south of the city of Yogyakarta, was hardest hit with nearly 60 per cent of reported casualties and thousands of destroyed homes and other buildings.
The quake region is located near the Mt Merapi volcano, which has seen increased activity since the disaster. A contingency plan has been put in place by the International Federation and the Indonesian Red Cross to deal with a possible eruption, including a security and evacuation strategy. Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers are on stand-by, while 50 metric tonnes of relief supplies have also been stockpiled in central and regional warehouses. A further one million people could be displaced if Mt Merapi erupts.
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Quake hit Sat 27 May near Yogyakarta
and Mt Merapi and temples tourism site
Indonesian president camps with some
of the 200,000 displaced
Indonesia declares emergency after
quake kills 4,600
CARE doctor describes the scene in
Klaten where 2000 died
Big aid organisations were ready
(300) by Alan Carroll
Immediate actions - World Food
Programme (WFP) and national responses
Comparisons made with other
disasters in Christian Science Monitor report Monday 29 May
Trucks and planes rush to quake-hit
Yogyakarta (300), by Alan Carroll
Air lifts and trucks - WFP and TNT
bring vital supplies
IOM Delivering Aid, Assisting in Medical
Evacuations
Naval/military aid: India despatches
suppies and personnel by naval ship and air freighter
US-based InterAction (IA) members
compared with Aus NGOs
News from Reuters Alertnet and
others 29/30 May:
Government responses and first air
lifts - The Guardian.
CNN about UN and government
arrangements, 29 May
Air transportation reports by
Indonesian officials
Bantul operations: UNICEF sets up
water and child centres and supplies by air and road
Four Malaysian Air Force planes
bring medical supplies and armed services help
US Govt sends cargo planes, ship and
$5m, while Canada to give Cdn$2m and ADB about Cdn$66m
People killed 5698, reports on
shelters, supplies and other nations helping
Hospitals help - Singapore sends
second medical and logistics team
Aust Govt lifts aid to A$7.5m, with
medical, logistical and engineering team members
ERU reports from British Red Cross
and Catholic Relief Services
Quake hit Sat 27 May near Yogyakarta and Mt Merapi and temples tourism site
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The quake hit [at 5:54 a.m. local time near
Yogyakarta city - initial reports said about 90 percent of those found
dead were in Bantul, the hardest hit area of Yogyakarta according to Gozali
Situmorang, an official at the Ministry of Social Affairs. The death toll was
at least 4,285, Agence France- Presse reported.
This is the worst natural disaster in the Southeast
Asian nation since the tsunami of
There are about 200,000 displaced persons from the
earthquake, according to the International Red Cross, AFP reported.
A prime tourist attraction, the
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Mt Merapi
About 400 kms from
Nearby villages have received rainfalls of the
toxic ash presenting health implications for the villagers, but no deaths have
been recorded so far.
During
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Airports
Travel to the area was made difficult because of
damage to the runway and other facilities at
Trains to
Telecommunications
Telephone lines that were cut off by the earthquake
``are back to normal, but mobile phones are not working fully,'' ElShinta radio
reported, citing Rohiman Sukarno, head of corporate communication at PT
Telekomunikasi
Indonesian president camps with some of the 200,000
displaced
Attachment:
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The Scotsman 28 May 06:
Displaced persons: More than 200,000 people were
left homeless in a disaster zone stretching across hundreds of square
kilometres of mostly farming communities in densely populated
One tourist from
The worst devastation was in the town of
As night fell tens of thousands of people prepared
to sleep on streets, in rice fields and in backyards, fearful of aftershocks.
Electricity
Power was out across much of the region, adding to
their terror.
As an international relief operation got under way,
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the army to help evacuate victims
and arrived to oversee rescue operations, telling people "at a time like
this we have to unite". He slept in a tent camp with survivors.
Indonesia
Reuters Alertnet
Rescue workers dug desperately for survivors on
Sunday and hospitals struggled to cope with the thousands of injured, a day
after an earthquake left more than 4,600 people killed on
Pic: Villagers move food on to a truck, for
distribution, at the Imogiri district in Bantul, near
Pic: Villagers move food on to a truck, for
distribution, at the Imogiri district in Bantul, near
Pic: Villagers queue for treatments for their
injuries at a tent hospital in Bantul, near
Pic: Indonesian soldiers treats a villager at a
tent hospital in Bantul, near
By Muklis Ali and Lewa Pardomuan
BANTUL, Indonesia, May 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia's
government declared a state of emergency after a quake killed more than 4,600
people, and rescue workers raced against time on Monday in the hope of finding
survivors under the debris of razed homes.
Some 35,000 buildings around
After a cabinet meeting late on Sunday, Vice
President Jusuf Kalla said the emergency period would last three months and the
goverment aimed to complete "reconstruction and rehabilitation"
within a year.
"We will have an emergency period for three
months, May till August. The objectives are providing food, health care and
shelter," Kalla told reporters.
"The funds needed are about 1 trillion rupiahs
($100 million) ... for repairing homes and facilitating people's needs. This
figure can change. It comes from the state budget and international aid."
An estimated 35,000 homes and buildings had been
destroyed and 50,000 people needed help, Kalla said.
Electricity
He added that the quake had destroyed power
facilities worth 200 billion rupiahs.
Government figures put the number injured at 2,155,
but UNICEF (U.N. children's fund) spokesman
Trucks full of volunteers from Indonesian political
parties and Islamic groups, as well as military vehicles carrying soldiers,
headed south from the ancient royal city to Bantul, the area hardest hit.
"Thousands of houses are damaged and people
may still be trapped beneath them," Ghozali Situmorang, director general
of aid management for the national social department, told
Medical supplies and body bags arrived at the
The international community has offered medical
teams and emergency supplies. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has
moved his office temporarily to
A vulcanologist said the quake had heightened volcanic
activity at nearby
PICKING OVER THE WRECKAGE
People killed
The official death toll jumped to 4,611 on Sunday
night, said the Social Affairs Ministry's disaster task force.
In Bantul, which accounted for more than 2,000 of
the deaths and where most buildings were flattened, makeshift plastic tents
dotted the roads.
Basic needs, medical supplies
In the afternoon heat, Sugiyo picked through the
remnants of his brick home. He had been trapped with his family before being
rescued by neighbours. His mother was killed.
His face lit up as he spotted a pink box containing
diapers and baby clothes. "This is for my 2-year-old daughter," he
said, holding it tightly in his arms.
Throughout the disaster-struck region, authorities
struggled to deliver aid.
"The problem now is that we are still short of
tents, many people are still living on the streets or open areas," said
Suseno, a field officer of the
Water
Clean water was another problem, officials said. In
Bantul, all 12 water distribution systems had been either knocked out
completely or were not working properly, UNICEF's Budd said.
"The area destroyed by the quake is very
large," said Social Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah. "We need time ...
hopefully, in a week or 10 days the emergency period can be over."
The quake struck while many were still in bed. The
wooden roofs of flimsy houses fell in on them.
Fearful of aftershocks, thousands camped outside
for a second night despite rain.
Hospitals struggled to cope. Hundreds of people
crammed into the corridors and grounds of
Hospital volunteer Andrew Jeremijenko said:
"There's a lot of severe injuries ... there are not enough nurses or
doctors to cope with the load."
Saturday's was the third major tremor to hit
On Sunday a quake of 6.7 magnitude struck the South
Pacific
A prime tourist attraction, the
But the Prambanan Hindu temple complex suffered
some damage, as did the roads and houses near it, a Reuters witness said.
Indonesian media reported that outer sections of
(Additional reporting by Achmad Sukarsono, Diyan
Jari, Yoga Rusmana and Michelle Nichols in
CARE doctor describes the scene in Klaten where 2000 died
CARE's Health Programme Director Dr. Endang Widyastuti gave a first-hand
account as a member of an emergency assessment team in Klaten, with nearly
2,000 people killed.
"I'm passed ten villages. All are destroyed.
They are combing through the rubble trying the find survivors and their
belongings. I passed three or four men who were very stressed. They didn't want
to talk. They are very affected. It is very sad. We are seeing some dead
bodies. They covered the bodies and wanted to get rid of them, but they can't reach
two dead people in one house. They are calling for help, looking for big
equipment to dig through the rubble to remove the bodies.
Medical supplies
"I am at the poskesmas (health clinic) right
now. The poskesmas is all under control. It's not like yesterday (Sunday), when
it was very overwhelmed with patients, injured people. They still need doctors
and the mobile clinic. After they have treatment of injured, they have to
change the stitches, change the dressing. They need to follow up.
Shelter
"Every family is in their house, or a
temporary tent in front of their house. People are terrified to sleep inside
because they think their house will collapse. Most houses have collapsed
already. It's very sad. Tents and plastic sheeting are needed desperately.
Water
"In this village, the people do not have
access to fuel after the earthquake, so they can't boil their water to make it
safe to drink. We have started distributing Air Rahmat, the water purification
solution, to the people here, and showing them how to use it. They are very
happy to have this, so they can have clean water. It is very important to
provide clean water after emergencies like this, to prevent the spread of
water-borne diseases."
Big aid organisations were ready (300) by Alan
Carroll
Attachment:
http://www.acknowledge.com.au/whatsnew.htm
With the Indonesian government placing the danger
at alert level four and estimating as many as 80,000 could be displaced by a
big eruption, Indonesia’s Red Crescent had also been busy with access and exit
arrangements to quickly move people from their homes.
Oxfam’s first requirement for trucking the 400 kms
to
Then they set about distributing distributed
hygiene kits with soap, sanitary towels and sarongs to an estimated 30,000
households displaced by the earthquake. Many of the people were sleeping
outside as some 90 percent of mostly mud-brick homes were demolished in the
worst-hit districts.
"Luckily the contingency planning we'd been
doing for a possible eruption of the Merapi volcano has meant we have immediate
access to these stocks of equipment stored locally," said David Macdonald,
Oxfam's Country Programme manager for Indonesia.
Oxfam had 20 staff there when
World Vision was ready on the scene too, with 15
staff based in
Immediate actions - World Food Programme (WFP) and
national responses
International Aid
The World Food Program (WFP) is sending 80 tons of
fortified noodles and biscuits and a team to assess how many people will need
food aid in the region, Barry Came, the program's spokesman, said.
Pledges of monetary aid are streaming into
To contact the reporters on this story:
Denise Kee in
Aloysius Unditu in
Comparisons made with other disasters in Chris tian Science Monitor report Monday 29 May
Attachment:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0530/p01s03-woap.html
Unlike Aceh, most roads were undamaged. In fact,
much of the area's infrastructure, including communications towers, sewage
facilities, and government offices were left largely intact.
As with the December 2004 tsunami that devastated
villages in
As after the
Oct 05
The magnitude 6.3 temblor that rocked the island of
Java [on Sat 27 May] has left more than 5,000 dead and at least 150,000 people
homeless, according to UN and Indonesian official estimates.
Since Saturday, more than a dozen national governments
have pledged assistance. The US Govt has committed $2.5 million in aid and is
sending 100 doctors, nurses, and medical technicians from a base in
By nightfall Monday, thick rains fell on thousands
of the displaced, sheltering in tent settlements, parking lots, and rice
fields.
International aid agencies met in
Hospitals
The International Red Cross said it has already
sent a field hospital and 2,000 tents, with 8,000 more on the way. But as of
Monday, most of the aid had yet to be distributed beyond the capital.
The Indonesian Government's attention appears to be
focused on overwhelmed hospitals where doctors have been triaging patients
crammed into hallways and courtyards. Hundreds of victims are lying on
newspapers, plastic tarpaulins, and even banana and palm leaves. Nurses were
forced to set up intravenous drips using trees in car parks as props.
Budi Mulyono, a spokesman for the
At
Airports
The rumble of C-130 cargo planes over the ancient Indonesian
city of
Trucks and planes rush to quake-hit Yogyakarta (300), by Alan Carroll
Attachment:
http://www.acknowledge.com.au/whatsnew.htm
Killing at least three thousand and making more
than 100,000 homeless,
Worst hit was
Included in the emergency deliveries are supplies
made ready in mobile warehouses after last year’s disaster assistance to
tsunami-hit Aceh and Nias in
World Food Programme (WFP) quickly assumed its
usual lead in major disaster response, calling in emergency food rations which
started arriving just 36 hours after the earthquake.
A WFP-chartered plane arrived first, bringing an
emergency medical team from Aceh. It landed in Solo, about three hours by road
from areas worst affected by the earthquake, bringing about two tonnes of
medical supplies.
It preceded a WFP-led UN emergency assessment team
consisting of personnel from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), UN Development Programme (UNDP),
UNFPA and the World Health Organization (WHO) and several non-governmental
organisations (NGOs).
Arriving later on Sunday were three trucks from
WFP’s road haul contractor, TNT, which brought 30 tonnes of high-energy
biscuits - sufficient to feed 20,000 in Yogyakarta worst-hit suburbs Bantul and
Klaten for seven days.
WFP Executive Director James Morris said five more
trucks were en route from
The latest big quake has re-awakened world sympathy
for the people of to the world's largest archipelago, so prone to earthquakes -
having 129 active volcanoes and tectonic faults on their 18,000 islands.
Air lifts and trucks - WFP and TNT bring vital
supplies
By air
WFP's Ilyushin aircraft left Brindisi UN
Humanitarian Response Depot Monday morning at 3am (Italian time), scheduled to
arrive in Solo, Indonesia early on Tuesday 30 May. The aircraft's cargo - seven
tonnes of WFP high-energy biscuits, 32 tonnes of blankets, tents, generators,
gerry cans, water pumps & purification units from Italy from the Italian
Development Cooperation organization.