From: pecs secretariat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reports from SEGERA volunteers
News from the Medan POSKO
1. The main problem for the smaller posko staffed by activists relates to the difficulties in transportation from Medan to Aceh and the transportation to thyen get goods to the more interior sites. We had to wait two days for rent a lorry and we had tp pay 5 million rupiah (AUD$700approx) per trip. Their other problem is the cost of communications � without being able to use mobile phones they are cut off, and there is no budget for mobile phone calls.
2. The volunteers are emphasising the ca.,l for food because there are many points not being reached where starvation is rampant. Foods could be dry hoods, salted fish, eggs, sardines, rice, beans and so on.
3. In the larger posko run by the government the procedure for getting goods out is very difficult. Aid is piling up at the Polonia airport (Medan) as wekk as the Balkand Nintang airport and the offices of the district heads. At Polonia airport there are goods enough for 1,000 trucks just sitting there. A SEGERA activist brought three lorries but he was mpot allowed to take any goods. Even the Bupati (Sub-Provincial Head) of Bireuen, Mustafa Gelanggan, brokle don crying because neither could he get goods out of the aurport.
4. At Blang Bintan Airport, in Aceh instant mie, sent as aid, is being sold at 600 rupoiah a packet,
5. In district head offices, aid goods are only being released to people with I.D. cards. � but after the tsunami how can most people find their I.D. cards?
New from Meulaboh, West Aceh
The fate of 49, 000 people in the residency (sub-provincial region) of West Aceh is still not known. Meanwhile thousands of refugees from the area are surviving on one meal a day. According to reports from this area, 47,000 people are registered as refugees, and 6,000 recorded as dead up until 3 January. But in a population of 102,000 that leaves 49,000 unaccounted for. These are from the regions of Samatiga, Anangan Lapang, Johan Pahlawan, Kaway 16 and Merbou. Despite efforts by volunteers, governemnt personnel and the local community, only a small numbers of corpses have been found.
At night, the atmosphere is very oppressive. It is pitch black because there is no electricty. Nobody dares go out.
Saat ini DPR sudah mengusulkan untuk gelar operasi militer non perang di aceh. Sesuai dengan UU TNI yang baru. Jadi semua jalur akan dikuasi oleh TNI. (lihat detik hari ini)
Issued by Thamrin Ananda, SEGERA, Jakarta, Jan 3
SOLIDARITAS GERAKAN RAKYAT UNTUK ACEH � latest NEWS
BANDA ACEH
SEGERA volunteers have surveyed 8 refugee points: the TVRI television station, the parliament building,
1. Assesment sudah dilakukan di 8 titik pengungsi, antara lain: TVRI, DPRD, Mata Ie, Kaju, Ladong, Lamyoeng while in there are three refugee points. Concentartions range from 300 to 3,000. All are still insufficient in medicines and food.
2. We need more of everything: food, petrol, vehicles. And more volunteers.
3. The current storage area we are using is now too small, we are now looking for a biogger place,
4. SEGERA has set up three new posko in Darusalam, Ketapang and Blang Bintang\
5. New posko are needed to deal with specific issues: to look after children, to help find families, mecicine and public kitchens.
6. SEGERA volunteers now in place at various POSKO and also looking for their familes are: Raihana (Chairperson, ORPAD), Risna (ORPAD), Rahmawati (ORPAD), Nurani (ORPAD), RAHMAT (SMUR-FPDRA), Mahmudal (SMUR-FPDRA), Zamzami (PDRM-FPDRA), Syafruddin (SMUR-FPDRA)
TAPAK TUAN (Aceh-Selatan) � MEULABOH
Latest information:
1. SEGERA volunteers (Darma, Muksin, 1 from Medan and 2 from Gerakan Pemuda Kerakyatan) with their aid materials have arrived inMeulaboh, but communications have been broken.
2. Any posko set up by volunteers must be in the local MILITARY DISTRCIT (KODIM) commad and under the coordination of the TNI. Theer is a strong impression that the TNI willonly aid those who indicate they are willing tpo work under the TNI and not independently. 5. On January 3 at 18.42 hrs, volunteers amnd others were having to pay 60-100 thousand rupiah to cross ln the ferry. Nobody dared protest.\
7. A U.S> warshipdocked at Ulele at 12.20. Security personnel and Mobile Police (BRIMOB) are everywhere fully armed guarding empty shops.
Up-date information from activistsin the field who are part of the volunteer team of the Civil Society Coalition for the Victims of Earthquake and Tsunami. � issueded by Zelly Ariane in Indonesian language, Jan 4., SEGERA, Jakarta.
GLOSSARY
FPDRA: Front Perlawanan Demokratik Rakyat Aceh - Acehnese People Democratic Struggle Front
ORPAD: Organisasi Perempuan Aceh Demokratik � Womens Organization for Democracy in Aceh
SEFA: Save Emergency For Aceh
SSG: Sue Support Group
SMUR : Solidaritas Mahasiswa Untuk Rakyat - Student�s Solidarity for the People
Above � Zelly Ariane, Acehnese activist in SEGERA at SEGERA�s Jakarta PSOKO with some of the food and other goods collected from community donations.
WHAT IS SEGERA?
The Solidarity of People Movement for Aceh (SEGERA) � in itself a coalition that struggle for the democratic rights of the Aceh people, formed since 2001, consisted of labour unions, student organizations, acehnese pro-democracy organizations and some political parties � is among the 24 organizations that joined the coalition. Until the time of the writing, SEGERA have sent 15 volunteers from Jakarta to disaster areas in Aceh. Almost all of them are Acehnese democratic activists outside Aceh, whose families become victims or are still missing. More volunteers are being prepared to follow them soon. SEGERA has set up aid-collecting posts (posko) or crisis centers in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bandung and Medan; and aid-distribution posts in two cities in
Aceh, Banda Aceh and Meulaboh. As a response to the sluggish relief operation, SEGERA urges that:
1. The
government revokes the status of civil emergency to open access to Aceh for local and
international aid and relief operation.
2. The state apparatus and the military give more access and facilities to both national and
international civilian organizations to allow them more involvement in the relief operation
3. The government immediately conduct a reconstruction and rebuild the infrastructure destroyed by the disaster
January 1st, 2005
Solidaritas Gerakan Rakyat untuk Aceh - Solidarity of
People Movement for Aceh
(SEGERA)
Solidarity fund for Aceh can be transferred to the account set up by SEGERA
Bank International Indonesia
Name: Yuliana Ronauli MMP
BSA/Swift Code: 281013
Account No: 1-121-162097
Immediate use of the fund would be to send volunteers to areas of disaster in Aceh, to help aceh-based volunteers and to evacuate victims. Volunteers are urgently needed to do relief work, to evacuate victims, to
restore healthy environment so that the spread of disease can be stopped as much as possible, as well as to monitor the distribution of aid to ensure that the victims would receive it.
SEGERA (Solidaritas Gerakan Rakyat untuk Aceh)
Jl Tebet Barat Dalam VIII L no 2 Jakarta Selatan � Indonesia
Phone : 62-21-8309061
Detik kom (Kamis, 6 jan jam 02.00)
Korban meninggal 94200 jiwa
Pengungsi 517226
Dirilis oleh Depkes.
The Jakarta post, Kamis, 6 Feb 2005
NGO accuses officials of abusing aid for Aceh
Forum-Asia, an Asian-based human rights watchdog, expressed concern on Wednesday over the alleged abuse of aid for tsunami victims in Aceh as some officials were selling the food aid to survivors.
The NGO received reports from its members and partners who were working inside Aceh that officials at Banda Aceh's Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport sold instant noodles for Rp 500 (US$0.05) per pack.
The NGO also recorded that desperate survivors at some distribution centers managed by the military were denied aid if they were unable to produce proper identity cards.
"In some cases, those who fail to present their identity cards are harassed and even beaten up. It is assumed that such incidents are more prevalent in remote areas," the NGO said in its report revealed at a press conference.
To prevent further abuses in the field, the NGO appealed to the Indonesian government to immediately outline detailed procedures for the disbursement of aid on the ground.
It also demanded the military authority create a code of conduct for military personnel supporting relief work, in order to enable civil society volunteers to assist the survivors. -- JP
Human rights group says Indonesian military incompetent, abusive
BANGKOK (DPA): The Indonesian military is hampering efforts to distribute aid to tsunami survivors in Aceh province, denying assistance and even abusing some survivors, a regional human rights organization is alleging.
The Bangkok-based Asia Forum listed a host of abuses and incompetence in managing aid distribution, and demanded that the military allow free flow of food, water and medical assistance in the devastated region at the northern end of the island of Sumatra.
The group alleged that soldiers were denying aid to survivors who were unable to present all of the proper identification documents, in spite of massive destruction to their homes and possessions.
It also said that local non-governmental organizations were being prevented from distributed their own aid, while military-held food, water, clothing and medicines were stockpiled in airports without efficient delivery.
In one case that Asia Forum said it had verified, instant noodles from relief shipments were being sold at inflated prices to victims at the Banda Aceh provincial capital airport.
"Women and children who are most vulnerable to diseases are lined up outside the only running hospital, operated by the military, and are not getting attention they desperately need for medical relief," the organization said in a public statement.
Asia Forum also criticized the army for continuing to divert resources to its ongoing counterinsurgency campaign against the separatist guerrilla Free Aceh Movement (GAM), after rejecting the rebels' Dec. 26 offer of a ceasefire.
Delays in distributing food, water and medicines are causing mounting deaths, the statement said.
It called on the Jakarta government to suspend martial law in Aceh, limit the army to humanitarian relief efforts, and ensure the distribution of aid to all affected areas and people without discrimination. (**)
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