--- In [email protected], Mira Wijaya Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> pecs secretariat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:38:44 +0000 (GMT)
> From: pecs secretariat
>> 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,
> 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.
>
>> 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, >
All the best in your efforts!
JAKER(Jaringan Kerja Kebudayaan Rakyat)
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