I'm really torn with natural disasters attacking Indonesia in many fronts right now.
Flash flood in Wasior, Papua, earlier this month.
And both late last week, Mount Merapi Volcano Eruption and Tsunami in Mentawai Islands. People call it the Twin Disaster, the last one is the worst.
Flash flood in Wasior, Papua, earlier this month.
And both late last week, Mount Merapi Volcano Eruption and Tsunami in Mentawai Islands. People call it the Twin Disaster, the last one is the worst.
The tsunami wiped around 10 villages, killed almost 600 of people and left other hundreds missing. They say the aid workers smell nothing but dead bodies in the island, not to mention it's hard to transfer the aids there due to undeveloped remote locations (a lot of the villages are not accessible by land) and bad weather. The amount of food and facilities are clearly insignificant for the survivors.
Seeing all these mass burials on TV hurts. Especially when there is nothing you can do but give donations and pray.
Thanks for some of you who ask and email me if I'm okay. I'm okay, I live in Jakarta and it's far from Mentawai Islands and Papua which are in different islands. It's quite far from Mount Merapi in Central Java too, a couple of provinces away. The weather is extreme here but I hope nothing else happens because the people here have suffered a lot and I don't think the government has enough funds in their budgets.
The House of Representatives has approved almost US$ 17 million for the victims of all-three disasters but seriously, ridiculous number for these catastrophic events. Not enough. Try again. We don't even have enough boats or planes to reach a lot of these areas. I say request foreign aid already, but I don't know what they're thinking. All I know is the victims need help and they need it fast.
They need to do something about the tsunami warning system too because the current one did such a crappy job. It does NOT work for vulnerable locations so close to epicenter. 5 minutes warning before the quake and what? People evacuate but they still wont beat the waves. How about something more advanced but hey, maybe we're too cheap for that.
I'm sorry for ranting.
I hope maybe you can keep the victims in your thoughts, or your prayers..if you pray. Thank you for reading.
Seeing all these mass burials on TV hurts. Especially when there is nothing you can do but give donations and pray.
Thanks for some of you who ask and email me if I'm okay. I'm okay, I live in Jakarta and it's far from Mentawai Islands and Papua which are in different islands. It's quite far from Mount Merapi in Central Java too, a couple of provinces away. The weather is extreme here but I hope nothing else happens because the people here have suffered a lot and I don't think the government has enough funds in their budgets.
The House of Representatives has approved almost US$ 17 million for the victims of all-three disasters but seriously, ridiculous number for these catastrophic events. Not enough. Try again. We don't even have enough boats or planes to reach a lot of these areas. I say request foreign aid already, but I don't know what they're thinking. All I know is the victims need help and they need it fast.
They need to do something about the tsunami warning system too because the current one did such a crappy job. It does NOT work for vulnerable locations so close to epicenter. 5 minutes warning before the quake and what? People evacuate but they still wont beat the waves. How about something more advanced but hey, maybe we're too cheap for that.
I'm sorry for ranting.
I hope maybe you can keep the victims in your thoughts, or your prayers..if you pray. Thank you for reading.
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It's beyond ridiculous. I'm glad you're okay. There's never enough money to go around....but it would be great if they could work out a way to minimise the impacts on all those people.