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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.
A TNT-chartered flight from
Food aid delivered
By trucks
In total, by the end of May 29 -- three days after
the quake struck -- WFP had moved 70 tonnes of high-energy biscuits and 75 tons
of noodles to the disaster area. This included five TNT trucks, which arrived
today from
TNT is a global provider of express, mail and logistics
services and a long-standing humanitarian partner of WFP.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)
has also offered to help with transport.
Distribution is taking place in the villages and
sub-districts of Bantul and Klaten, through health centers, local authorities
and non-government organizations.
Markets in Bantul and Klaten are still closed,
meaning that many people who lost their own food stocks in the earthquake will
be relying on emergency food rations for survival.
This number could grow as more and more earthquake
survivors run of out of whatever they had on hand.
On Sunday night, it rained in Bantul and, according
to the assessment team, people are still sleeping in the open. Hospitals are a
grim sight, treating people under tents in parking lots and on the hospital
grounds.
IOM Delivering Aid, Assisting in Medical
Evacuations
Attachment:
http://www.iom.int/en/news/pr2006-008_en.shtml
Trucks
YOGJAKARTA, INDONESIA - The International
Organization for Migration IOM this morning began loading its trucks in
Yogjakarta, Indonesia, with 35 tons of food, water and medical supplies to be
distributed to the areas worst hit by Saturday’s earthquake.
“I expect we will have 30 trucks operating by the
end of the day today some of which will transport supplies to the district
capitals and others which will be used to distribute these items to the
villages,” said IOM logistician Ronnie Bala, a veteran of the emergency
response in Aceh and Nias.
“It is clear that the government agencies have
learned many lessons from responding to the tsunami, and they understand the
importance of coordination and how to deliver materials in a timely manner.”
Bala said IOM trucks are being dispatched to the
airport in
“One of the issues we face is that the roads into
these villages are quite narrow and there are thousands of people trying to get
into the area to search for their loved ones,” he said.
A six-member IOM medical team has met with hospital
administrators in Yogjakarta and the town of Klaten near the earthquake’s
epicenter to assess how best to implement an emergency evacuation system for
survivors in need of medical treatment.
The Organization has already identified 18
newly-released patients and their family members in Yogjakarta who are in
immediate need of assistance to return home, a service IOM provided in the wake
of the tsunami and March 2005 Nias earthquake.
The health system in
“There are many elderly victims at Sarjito hospital
in Yogjakarta with serious fractures and injuries and there is a great deal of
concern about their chances of survival without proper medical attention,” says
IOM information officer Shima Roy who is traveling with the medical team.
Pic: An eldery man is treated at Sarjito hospital
in Yogjakarta. © IOM 2006 (Photo: Shima Roy)
Paul Dillon
National Press Officer
Tel: +62 812 698 8035
E-mail: pdillonaceh@iom.int
Shima Roy
Information Officer
Tel: 0811.947.143
E-mail: sroy@iom.int
Naval/military aid: India
Attachment:
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/9239.asp
The Indian Navy diverted its warship INS Rajput from
a task force presently in
A second Indian Navy warship INS Tabar was being
loaded with relief material at Chennai and would set sail for
"We are ready to send hospital ships and
medical teams to help in quake relief," an Indian Defence Ministry
spokesman said, noting
US-based InterAction (IA) members compared with Aus
NGOs
Attachment: http://www.interaction.org/indonesia/
US-based InterAction (IA) members compared with Aus
NGOs from tsunami relief experience (1), then IA's names/websites (2) and
details of their assistance in earthquake relief (3).
InterAction is a coalition of more than 160
US-based private relief, international development and refugee assistance
organizations.
1. Comparison with major Aussie NGOs and aid orgs
The NGOs and aid organisations that are also
leading ones in
2. IA's list of US names/websites
ADRA International Indonesia Earthquake Fund 12501
Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, MD 20904 800-424-ADRA (2372) www.adra.org
American Jewish
American Red Cross International Response Fund
Baptist World Aid Asia Earthquake Appeal 405 North
Washington Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703-790-8980 www.bwanet.org/bwaid
Brother's Brother Foundation 1200 Galveston Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15233 412-321-3160 www.brothersbrother.org CARE 151 Ellis Street
NE
Church World Service (CWS) Indonesia Earthquake PO
Box 968
Direct Relief International Java Earthquake 27
South La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93117 805-964-4767
www.directrelief.org/sections/our_work/indonesia_quake.html
Food for the Hungry, Inc. 1224 E. Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85034 800-2-HUNGERS (800-248-6437) www.fh.org/focus_tsunami
Habitat for Humanity International Indonesia
Earthquake 121 Habitat St Americus, GA 31709 800-HABITAT www.habitat.org
International Aid 17011 W. Hickory Spring Lake, MI
49456 800-251-2502 www.internationalaid.org
International Medical Corps Indonesia Earthquake
Relief Fund 1919 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 300 Santa Monica, CA 90404-1950
800-481-4462 www.imcworldwide.org/loc_indonesia_earthquake.shtml
International Relief and Development (IRD)
International Relief Teams Indonesia Earthquake
3547 Camino Del Rio South, Suite C San Diego, CA 92108 619-284-7979
www.IRTeams.org
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Latter-Day Saint Charities Indonesia Earthquake 50
East North Temple Street, Floor 7 Salt Lake City, UT 84150-6800 800-453-3860
Ext 23544 www.lds.org/humanitarian
Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
MAP International
Mercy Corps
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development Indonesia
Earthquake Relief 44450 Pinetree Drive, Suite 201 Plymouth, Michigan 48170-3869
800-556-3729 www.mercyusa.org/IndonesiaEarthquake0506.cfm
Oxfam America Indonesia Earthquake Fund PO Box 1211
Albert Lea, MN 56007-9865 800-77-OXFAM www.oxfamamerica.org Plan USA Asia
Disaster 155 Plan Way Warwick, RI 02886 800-556-7918
www.planusa.org/indonesiaquake
Relief International
SAWSO (Salvation Army World Service Office) South
Pacific &
Save the Children USA Indonesian Earthquake
Children's Emergency Fund 54 Wilton Road Westport, CT 06880 800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
International Disaster Response, Advance #982450 P.O. Box 9068 New York, NY
10087 800-554-8583
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/newsroom/releases/archives06/20060528/
US Fund for UNICEF Indonesia Earthquake Emergency
Response 333 E.
World Concern Earthquake Relief Fund 19303 Fremont
Avenue North Seattle, WA 98133 800-755-5022 www.worldconcern.org
World Emergency Relief 2270-K Camino Vida Roble
World Hope International Indonesia Earthquake
Relief P.O. Box 96338 Washington DC 20090-6338 888-466-4673
www.worldhope.net/worldhope/aboutnew.htm
World Relief Java Earthquake 7 E Baltimore St
Baltimore MD 21202 800-535-5433 www.wr.org
World Vision
3. Details of IA members' intended earthquake
assistance
ADRA International (May 29, 2006) ADRA's initial
response in Indonesia includes working with local partners to provide emergency
shelter, and ADRA medical teams are on the way to take care of the injured.
Additional response staff have arrived in the region to expand ADRA's response.
American Jewish
American Red Cross (May 29, 2006) The American Red
Cross, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's
(Movement) has contributed $219,000 to help families affected by the earthquake
in the critical days and weeks that lie ahead. Additionally, an aerial and
on-site damage assessment was conducted on May 28, and a psychosocial team has
been deployed to train volunteers who will provide emotional support to
families affected by the disaster. Additional teams have been offered to help
with relief supply distributions.
Baptist World Aid (May 28, 2006) Baptist World Aid
(BWAid) & Hungarian Baptist Aid has redeployed a Rescue 24 Medical Team
from Nias to Yogyakarta to work with local teams and two medics from Singapore.
BWAid has made an initial grant of $20,000 available and are working through
their local affiliates in
CARE (
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (May 29, 2006)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has committed an initial $200,000 to the relief
effort and has staff on the ground working with local partners to distribute
shelter material and other emergency relief supplies to those left homeless.
CRS staff, on the ground since the quake struck, continue to assess damage and
humanitarian needs for the most vulnerable.
Church World Service (CWS) (May 29, 2006) With
local staff throughout Indonesia, Church World Service responded almost
immediately following the earthquake, sending an initial supply of nearly 3,000
bottles of water and blankets to Bethesda Hospital, in
Direct Relief International (DRI) (
Food for the Hungry (May 29, 2006) Food for the
Hungry's Indonesian Emergency Response and assessment teams are responding to
the survivors of the Java earthquake by providing emergency shelter, basic
supplies and hygiene kits, and medical care and supplies.
Habitat for Humanity International (
International Aid (
International Medical Corps (IMC) (May 29, 2006)
IMC, in close cooperation with the Government of Indonesia, has mobilized Rapid
Response Teams of about 100 personnel from its resources in Jakarta and Banda
Aceh to provide immediate medical care and assess the immediate-, medium- and
long-term needs of devastated regions in the Yogyakarta and Bantul districts.
IMC, which has been working in
International Relief and Development (IRD) (
International Relief Teams (May 29, 2006)
International Relief Teams is collecting cash donations to send emergency
medicines and supplies, and possibly emergency medical personnel, critically
needed in the regions devastated by the recent earthquake in Indonesia.
International Rescue Committee (IRC) (
Latter-Day Saint Charities (
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) (
MAP International (
Mercy Corps (May 29, 2006) At this stage, Mercy
Corps is providing affected communities with temporary shelter supplies, as
there are an estimated 200,000 people made homeless by the earthquake.
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (
Oxfam
Plan USA (May 29, 2006) Plan International was on
the ground when the quake hit and has been providing emergency relief,
including distribution of shelter, sleeping mats, hygiene kits, and medicines
to impacted communities in Yogyakarta, Bantul, and Gunung Kidul. Plan
International will be expanding its relief response and will include a feature
on temporary education for children in affected areas.
Relief International (May 29, 2006) Relief
International responded to the devastating earthquake in Indonesia by deploying
emergency relief and assessment teams from Jakarta to provide immediate
assistance to survivors and to ensure that families' urgent needs are met. With
more than 15 years of international disaster response experience, the Relief
International response will be scaled to meet the needs of the disaster as it
unfolds. Decisive action and financial support is urgently needed to provide
ongoing relief to survivors.
SAWSO (Salvation Army World Service Office) (May
29, 2006) Key Salvation Army emergency services personnel are being deployed to
the affected area, where The Salvation Army already operates a church and a
boys' home. The Salvation Army's International Headquarters has released an
immediate grant of $20,000 to help the people in affected areas who are in
desperate need of food, shelter, medicine and clothes. A medical/health tent is
being established in Bantul village.
Save the Children USA (May 29, 2006) Save the
Children, which has operated child-focused programs in Indonesia for 30 years,
is moving quickly to provide basic necessities to thousands of children and
families left homeless by the powerful earthquake that struck central Indonesia
on May 27. Save the Children will seek to provide families water, food,
medicines, hygiene kits and temporary shelter, with a special focus on ensuring
that children are protected and safe.
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) (
US Fund for UNICEF (May 29, 2006) UNICEF is
providing emergency supplies: tarpaulins; essential health supplies, hygiene
kits; small tents; large tents; lanterns; collapsible water tanks; school kits;
school tents; recreation kits and school-in-a-box school supplies - to help
survivors of the earthquake in Central Java, Indonesia. UNICEF is also
commencing a water tanker operation to bring clean water to survivors of the
disaster. The UN's Children Agency has deployed staff to
World Concern (
World Emergency Relief (
World Hope International (
World Relief (
World Vision (
IA Press Contact: Nasserie Carew (202-667-8227 x141
or ncarew@interaction.org)
News from Reuters Alertnet and others 29/30 May:
See two maps for download from ACknowledge.
Antara said earthquake epicentre 8.26 degrees
southern latitude and 110.23 degrees eastern logitude at a depth of 33kms in
the
The world's fourth most populated country,
The tremor early on Saturday was centred just off
the
"Only 10 percent of
Yogyakarta, a city of approximately 800,000 people
and Indonesia's ancient royal capital and one of its biggest cities, is about
440km south-east of Jakarta.
Though some larger buildings in
Indonesian help
The Indonesians themselves have mobilised
wonderfully. You've got a lot of soldiers on the ground, even the Indonesian
Special Forces are here, the Indonesian Red Cross, Islamic organisations.
You've got political party members, hoards of volunteers have been coming in.
But they really do need that infrastructure and those urgent medicines and beds
and tents. (ABC report
People killed
The social affairs ministry said 5,427 were
confirmed to have died, 30 May.
Supply
Reuters reported the United Nations will ship three
100-bed field hospitals, tents, medical supplies and generators in the next
three days.
"When I checked this morning, the amount is
very minimal," he said. "For such a large number of victims, we at
least need 5,000 tents. At the moment we only have less than 100."
Many devastated villages in central Java had yet to
receive aid three days after a powerful earthquake rocked the area, residents
said today (Tues 30 May).
A steady flow of aid, however, did continue to
arrive today, as relief agencies and other groups surveyed the area and started
distributing supplies. Helicopters buzzed above ruined towns for the first time
since the quake. Ambulances continued to race between villages and overcrowded
hospitals.NYTimes 30 May.
Ancient and protected heritage sites such as
Jakarta Post said 30 May:
Hours after the devastating earthquake,
archaeologists surveying the
The palace's Bangsal Trajumas pavilion to collapse
on a sacred set of gamelan instruments. The pavilion is a popular tourist
attraction that pays tribute to the royal family, whose line can be traced back
to the Mataram era in the 16th century. Since the 1970s, the pavilion has been
used to store the palace's sacred treasures.
A palace official, Gusti Hadi, said one pavilion
housing several treasures, including traditional musical instruments and a
carriage used by Yogyakarta's first sultan, had been destroyed.
The palace was built in 1755 by an Indonesian
prince who gave himself the title sultan. His descendants have continued to
rule the province, now a self-governing district answerable to the modern
capital,
The IRC has also brought in 2,000 masks to protect
people from the dust and ashes resulting from the increased volcanic activity
of nearby
Utilities
Telephone lines, electricity cables and cable
networks have already been restored across the city, and most schools and many
shops were open on Monday.
Baptist World Aid has three partners responding to
the disaster in Jo gjakarta
Attachment: http://www.shareanopportunity.org/default.asp?contentID=1000238
Indonesian Baptist Aid and Indonesian Holistic
Ministries have come together to respond to the immediate medical and relief
needs of survivors. The response includes a medical team, public kitchen
providing food and water, plastic tarps for shelter and blankets for warmth.
They are also assisting in the evacuation process to move villagers away from
the unstable area. Respiratory masks and blankets are being provided to those
affected by volcanic ash from Mt Merapi.
Baptist World Aid
Baptist World Aid (BWAid) and Hungarian Baptist Aid
redeployed a Rescue 24 Medical Team from Nias to
Government responses and first air lifts - The
Guardian.
Attachment:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5852898,00.html
Air lifts
Two
US Govt
The
The government said the quake left an estimated
200,000 people homeless, most of whom now are living in shacks close to their
former homes or in shelters erected in rice fields. Hospitals overflowed with
bloodied survivors.
The area affected by the quake stretches across
hundreds of square miles of mostly farming communities to the south of the
ancient city of
CNN about UN and government arrangements, 29 May
Attachment:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/29/un.quake.ap/
UN
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland has proposed
boosting relief efforts with money from the U.N.'s central emergency relief
fund, which stands at US$178 million (euro139 million), Byrs said.
Some 22 countries have now contributed or pledged
assistance to the Asian country, according to the U.N. Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA.
The humanitarian office said it has released an
US$100,000 (euro78,000) in emergency funds to get the relief effort going, but
said it will need much more to send additional food, medicine and other
supplies.
"We have developed a response strategy,"
OCHA spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said after representatives of U.N. agencies --
as well as the international Red Cross and other aid organizations -- met
behind closed doors to coordinate a relief plan.
The UN later briefed donor governments on what
types of funds and assistance are needed. An emergency appeal by the global
body is expected later this week.
WHO
The World Health Organization said it was sending
emergency equipment, will set up a disease-surveillance system to control
outbreaks of infectious diseases and help organize vaccination campaigns
against measles, "which can be a major killer and spreads rapidly in
crowded areas."
Supply
The UN will ship three 100-bed field hospitals,
tents, medical supplies and generators in the next three days.
(http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=796512006)
US Govt
The
Chinese report said 30 May: a 44-member emergency
rescue team left
SMH 31 May had - A plane carrying a 40-member
Chinese medical team and five tonnes of medical supplies landed early yesterday
at Solo, about 60 kilometres north of Yogyakarta province, China's Xinhua news
agency reported.
The British government has pledged 4 million pounds
(US$7.5 million; euro5.8 million).
The Dutch government pledged euro1 million (US$1.28
million).
NZ Govt
NZ has pledged NZ$500,000 delivered via
Aust Govt, utilities
Aust made it's offer A$3m and has a medical and
health team going with experts to assess and repair electricity, water and
sanitation services; and a structural engineering team that could assist local
authorities determine the status and safety of public buildings. The teams will
link closely with existing AusAID programs in these sectors, drawing on staff
with language skills and a deep knowledge of the region.
Alexander Downer told ABS Radio 30 May that AusAID
has sent a seven-person AusAID team that will be in place in
"They are coming from
AusAID will provide the funding through the
Indonesian Red Cross and Red Crescent Society and the International Federation
of the Red Cross as well as other key relief agencies to enable them to meet
the urgent needs of victims such as medical assistance, food and shelter.
Air transportation reports by Indonesian officials
Attachment: http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=8862_0_1_0_M
1. Report by
Thamrin B. Bachri
Director General for Marketing, Ministry of Culture
and Tourism of the
Airports, air lifts
The Adi Sucipto airport in
Two passenger planes landed safely at the airport
in the morning, followed by cargo planes belonging mostly to the military.
Medical supplies
Local authorities have said top priority would be
given to cargo planes carrying relief supplies and medicine for the victims.
Yogya airport suffered a 3m wide by 1m deep hole in
the runway, and the walls of the newly opened terminal building are leaning at
30 degrees and are propped up with steel posts.
The Solo airport has some damage at the western end
near the cemetery (where the Lion Air flight disaster occurred last year), but
was only closed yesterday morning. Because of the long runway length it can
still be used by most aircraft. It is now being used to ferry relief aid into the
area.
Imron Sathir, an Indonesian airforce officer at the
airport, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that only four Hercules aid flights
could land at the Yogyakarta airport at one time, and nine aid flights had
arrived at the airport on Monday - from the government, local aid
organizations, Malaysia, Singapore and a USAID flight [US Govt], carrying
mattresses, tents, [shelter] generators, clothes, medicine, water and other
supplies.
Another airforce officer said priority to land was
being given to visiting dignitaries, despite the limited capacity of the
airport.
Road conditions affect supply
From ABC news 30 May: There are huge traffic jams
in the area worst hit by Saturday's Indonesian earthquake as relief supplies
arrive from all over the world. Trucks carrying much anticipated supplies are
travelling the narrow and often unsealed roads in
30 May: But rough roads in mountainous central Java
and new cracks in the runway at the region's main airport hampered delivery
efforts.
In Jamprip, a village of 300 families, Edi
Sutrisno, 37, helped unload aid from a military truck: two bags of rice, nine
boxes of dried noodles and two boxes of bottled water.
``It's the first we've gotten since the quake,'' he
said.
The government said an estimated 200,000 people
were homeless, most living in improvised shacks close to their former homes or
in shelters erected in rice fields. Hospitals overflowed with bloodied
survivors. Power was still out in much of the quake region, which covers
hundreds of square miles.
Bantul operations: UNICEF sets up water and child
centres and supplies by air and road
Attachment:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/indonesia_34195.html
Bantul operations: UNICEF sets up water and child
centres and supplies by air and road
Water
UNICEF is coordinating with its partners - Oxfam,
the International Red Cross, PDM, the local water board and the Indonesian Government public works
department - to supply clean water to Bantul at emergency distribution points.
In water tanker operations Monday morning, UNICEF
contributed 5 tankers, Oxfam 5, PDM 2 and Red Cross 1. A total of 40,000 litres
a day will be supplied. Also Monday, UNICEF set up 15 emergency distribution
points using collapsible water bladders.
Child centres
UNICEF is setting up a child centre in Bantul to
provide trauma counselling and recreation for children. The Children’s Agency will establish within
24 hours a child centre in Bantul to provide trauma counseling and recreation
for children. UNICEF commenced assessment/tracing of separated children but he
anticipated that trauma would be the bigger issue.
Demographics of displaced persons:
Initial assessments put about 40pc of the total
number of displaced people as children, 15pc under five years of age. Most homeless people are remaining near their
residences with about 15 small camps established near public buildings, housing
between 100-200 people each.
Supplies
Air lift
Arrived in the first air lift were:
• 15 collapsible water bladders
• 10 large tents
• 50 family tents
• 800 tarpaulin sheets
• 350 cooking sets
• 1 generator
• 3 recreation kits
UNICEF needed
to raise $2 million to replenish the plane for a second supply lift.
Trucks
Together with supplies by trucks, UNICEF's total
supply to end Monday was:
* 10
large tents
* 100
family tents
* 1,000
tarpaulin sheets
* 20
collapsible water bladders
* 10
recreation kits
* 1,100
cooking sets
* 1
generator
* 20,000
hygiene kits.
A further 12,0000 hygiene kits were among more
medical supplies which left by truck
from UNICEF’s
Four Malaysian Air Force planes bring medical
supplies and armed services help
Attachment:
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=200681
Naval/military
The Malaysian Government will send a medical team of 76 armed forces
personnel to help victims of last Saturday's earthquake in
Air lifts
He said the team, comprising eight officers and 68
other ranks, would leave with medical supplies in four Royal Malaysian Air
Force (RMAF) aircraft at
The RMAF return air flights were made available to
ferry Malaysian students who wanted to return to
Hospitals
"We realise that the number of victims is huge
and there is a great need for medicines as the local hospitals there are unable
to cope with the large number of quake victims," Najib told reporters
after presenting armed forces veteran entrepreneurs awards and launching a
book, "Pahlawan Tanahair".
Najib gave the breakdown of the medical personnel as
one anesthesiologist, three medical officers, two dental officers, 40
paramedics and several support staff.
"We will also send two ambulances and a
landrover," he added.
The medical team is headed by Col Dr S. Jegathesan.
US Govt sends cargo planes, ship and $5m, while Canada
Attachment:
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060530/w053082.html
Naval/military
A USAID disaster assistance response team is being
readied and the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, which has extensive medical
facilities, is en route to the area, White House deputy press secretary Dana
Perino said.
The
Air lifts
Two
ADB
The Asian Development Bank announced a total
equivalent to about $66 million Cdn in grants and low-interest loans to rebuild
the earthquake zone.
People killed 5698, reports on shelters, supplies
and other nations helping
Attachment:
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060530/w053082.html
People killed
The Indonesian Government Social Affairs Ministry
said the official death toll rose Tuesday to 5,698 as officials account for
bodies buried quickly in mass graves after the quake.
The head of a
Shelters
Most survivors were still living in improvised
shacks or group shelters erected in rice fields. Groups of families cooked
together, each contributing scavenged food.
Supplies
Despite government promises of aid, shortages of
food and fresh water remained a pressing concern, and thousands of people used
cardboard boxes to beg for cash and supplies from passing drivers.
Other nations helping -
A 44-member team of Chinese doctors, search and
rescue workers and seismologists also arrived with 4 1/2 tonnes of supplies,
including a field hospital,
Teams from
Hospitals help - Singapore
Attachment:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/211065/1/.html
Hospitals help -
A Singapore Red Cross team comprising 3 doctors, 7 nurses and a
logistician, is
Forty medical personnel and volunteers from
The 18-member team from
It will be stationed at the Klaten and Sarjito
hospitals in
They will bring with them antibiotics, painkillers
and other medical equipment.
They will be working from a makeshift casualty
station in a field camp in Bantul alongside their Indonesian counterparts, the
Palang Merah
They expect different challenges from those in the
tsunami aftermath.
Aust Govt lifts aid to A$7.5m, with medical,
logistical and engineering team members
"
The Australian Government will send over 80
disaster experts to
This will increase
Hospital help
A 27-person medical team comprising surgeons,
anaesthetists, operating staff, disaster medicine specialists and logisticians,
led by a representative of Australia's international aid agency AusAID, will
leave from Sydney today (Tuesday).
The team will take 12 tonnes of equipment with
them.
Medical supplies
Medical, hospital and relief supplies, including
$200,000 of orthopaedic instruments are also being provided.
The extra $4.5 million follows
Yesterday Indonesia-based medical personnel
mobilised to conduct needs assessments and pave the way for the arrival of the
medical and surgical personnel.
AusAID has been working in
Funds are also being provided to Muhammadiyah, an
Indonesian NGO, as well as Australian NGOs and United Nations agencies to
support medical and feeding programs in the worst affected areas.
Media inquiries:
Tony Parkinson (Minister's Office) 0409 536 410
AusAID (Public Affairs) 0417 680 590
ERU reports from British Red Cross and Catholic
Relief Services
Four British Red Cross logistics experts went in an
emergency response unit (ERU) to coordinate
Catholic Relief Services CRS is focusing its
interventions in 3 sub-districts within the most affected areas: Kretek and
Pundong in the district of Bantul, and Prambanan in the district of
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First reports
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. With the Indonesian government placing the eruption 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 Yogyakarta from Jakarta was for 5000 buckets and jerry cans. The NGO’s emergency response teams first set up water bladders to truck water to the hospital in Bantul, the densely populated district closest to the quake’s epicentre.
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. He said Oxfam had 20 staff there when Indonesia’s latest big earthquake hit on Saturday morning. Additional staff were immediately called in from Aceh, Jakarta and Bangkok.
World Vision was ready on the scene too, with 15 staff based in Yogyakarta including relief officers and doctors. The NGO was the first with a truck of emergency aid to arrive from Jakarta on Sunday morning, which brought 380 tarpaulins and supplies of blankets, sarongs and velt beds. These went to inhabitants of Jetis village, the worst-affected part of Bantul district. More velt beds were expected from Jakarta today (Monday) in trucks which would also bring kitchen kits, hygiene kits and more tarpaulins. The NGO had sufficient for 1,500 families.
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.
Worst hit was Central Java around Yogyakarta, the city gateway for world tourists visiting the famous Hindu-Buddhist temples at Borobudur. It was Indonesia’s worst earthquake since the tsunami-producing force 9.2 quake on Boxing Day 2004.
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 Indonesia’s far north.
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’s worst-hit suburbs Bantul and Klaten for seven days.
WFP Executive Director James Morris said five more trucks were en route from Jakarta carrying fortified noodles and the plan was to continue trucking in supplies every day. "This is a terrible tragedy for so many people, in a country which has already suffered so much," he said.
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.
Earlier reports from the Indonesian volunteer reporters' site Indonesia-Relief Org ( for which AC is Aust/NZ correspondent):
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