| IDEP Aceh
Recovery Update No 14: IDEP FLASH |
| April 1, 2005 |
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On Monday, 11.09 pm local time another huge
earthquake (8.7 magnitude) hit just west of Aceh. People
on the ground said that “this quake felt stronger
than the one on Dec. 26th, In one minute, everything was
destroyed, people didn’t even have a chance to run”.
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Map of the area & the epicenter of the 8.7 magnitude
quake. Arial view of Gunungsitoli, the capital of the island
of Nias |
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| The areas
most impacted are the islands to the west of North Sumatra: |
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| Nias Island:
Estimations to
date are between 1,000 to 2,000, are dead, more than 20,000
displaced, More than 80% of the buildings on Nias destroyed
or rendered uninhabitable. Damaged roadways and bad weather
are hampering aid and rescue attempts. Nias’ main
town, Gunungsitoli, was largely destroyed. Electricity and
water supplies are limited and communication to the area
is a problem as most of the islands' telephone network were
knocked out. Bad weather and a damaged airport has prevented
many flights from landing on Nias, which was badly hit by
the quake. |
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Simeulue Island: About half of the buildings
were seriously damaged. The capital, Sinabang 80% infrastructure
damage. An estimated additional 8,000 people are in need of
shelter and emergency aid are now being added to the list
of 23,000 from the Tsunami in Dec. Sea Levels were reported
to have dropped by up to three meters and then today sunk
yet another meter. Reefs are lifting and debris in the water
is making sea navigation difficult. |
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| Banyak Islands: The closest land mass to the
quake's epicenter. The islands are very difficult to access
and reports of damage there have been slow to emerge. population
of around 5,000. Parts of the islands appear to have sunk
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| What
is IDEP doing... |
On Tuesday morning IDEP assisted in the deployment
of a team of experienced Indonesian Search & Rescue (SAR) & evacuation
volunteers who traveled by ferry from Sibolga (
North Sumatra
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devastated capital Gunungsitoli. More local volunteers are
following, taking the ferry at 10 pm tonight.
The first team is currently working on rescuing people from
the rubble and assisting in local refugee camps. The second
team will also facilitate the reestablishment of basic communications
on the island, and will travel overland to Mabrehe (also on
Nias) to repair an SSB radio tower that an IDEP team installed
there one month ago.
Our aid delivery vessel, the Endless Sun from YAS/AsiaWorks
is on its way to the area now, stocked with hundreds of tons
of aid, ETA in Sibolga is Tuesday, where, if support is available
we will try to acquire some small fishing boats that can be
used to facilitate aid delivery on the islands. Much of the
aid on the Endless Sun was already earmarked for urgent needs
on Aceh’s mainland so the vessel’s project manager
is currently in Banda Aceh organizing additional aid from
the UN to be loaded onto the boat for delivery to the devastated
islands.
IDEP’s Samantha Sinclair will return to Aceh and join
our local volunteer teams on the islands to assist them with
coordination with international aid agencies, and maximizing
equitable and widespread assistance for those most in need. |
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| IDEP
very much needs your support... |
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| IDEP’s finances are already committed
to our Aceh Recovery Program for which we are still raising
funds. We have had to shift some of those funds for this new
emergency. This is what IDEP plans to do: |
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- Volunteer support so that they can continue to distribute
urgently needed emergency aid
- Hiring small local fishing vessels that can be used for
aid distribution
- Buying specific goods being requested by the survivors
at this time: water, tents, non-perishable food, generators,
medicine, etc. Some of these are onboard the Endless Sun
now, but not nearly enough to address the need.
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| How
you can help |
| If you are able to help us with this new disaster
please make your contribution as quickly as possible – thank
you. |
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By CREDIT CARD - Via PayPal, an internet payment system which allows you to make payments from 45 countries (not including Indonesia - if your credit card billing address is in Indonesia this will not work). Go to www.idepfoundation.org/aceh_aid.html and follow the instructions there. (Tax deductible for US taxpayers.)
By CHECK (in US) - Via Tides Foundation. Make check payable to ģAceh Aid / Tides Foundationī and mail to Byron Miranda, Accounting, Tides Foundation, P.O. Box 29903, San Francisco, CA 94129, USA. (Tax deductible for US taxpayers.)
PayPal donations go through Tides Foundation and the foundation does not give IDEP the names or amounts of donations. So, if you donate via either of the above AND want to receive email UPDATES and be listed on our Donor List, please send an email to: donations@idepfoundation.org and tell us your name, date and amount of donation and email address. |
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By WIRE TRANSFER
Account Name : Yayasan IDEP
Account Number : 034.001229576.003
Bank : BNI (Bank Negara Indonesia), Cabang Ubud, Bali
Bank Address : Jl. Raya Ubud, Bali - Indonesia
SWIFT Code : BNINIDJA DPS |
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If you send a wire transfer please send an email to : donate@idepfoundation.org - Telling us your name, date of transfer, currency, and amount (as well as how you would like the donation listed if it is not the same as the name on the wire transfer receipt).
For additional information regarding donations or interest in help with fundraising or fundraising events or if you have questions, or interest in sponsoring particular projects, supplies, equipment, or about contributing in other ways, please contact at donate@idepfoundation.org |
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| The information contained in this bulletin was accurate to the best of our knowledge at the time it was written. The situation in Aceh changes rapidly. |
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