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,
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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