After a year, yet another frustrating story about tsunami aid. Saiful

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailweekly.asp?fileid=20060111.@02

January 11, 2006
Red-tape wrangle holds up tsunami aid

Hera Diani and Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta/Medan

After nine months of frustration in trying to claim a container filled
with tsunami relief supplies at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta, the
Sampoerna Foundation gave up.

First, there was the storage fee at the seaport -- which eventually
reached a whopping Rp 50 million (around US$5,263) -- plus the Rp 10
million needed to deliver the container to Aceh, as well as another
container handling fee of 500 euros.

Secondly, the aid -- mostly clothes, blankets and mattresses shipped
by a Dutch donor -- was no longer needed by the victims more than a
year after the Dec. 26, 2004, disaster.

The foundation, which is primarily focused on disbursing educational
scholarships nationwide, declared it was unable to foot the bill,
except for the 500 euros.

"We feel it's now irrelevant to send the aid anyway," the marketing
and communications director of Sampoerna Foundation, Sapto Handoyo
Sakti, told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

The foundation assigned courier and cargo company Mondo Express to
arrange custom clearance. Despite clearance documents from several
related departments and institutions, including the Directorate
General of Taxation as the body assigned to channel aid to Aceh,
another permit was required from the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

A host of other clearance documents was also needed from the Ministry
of Social Affairs, Coordinating Ministry for People's Welfare and the
National Disaster Management Body (Bakornas).

By the time all the documents were received in November, the storage
fee had ballooned.

Sampoerna Foundation communications officer Hendri Budi Satrio noted
there were no such problems in overseas aid sent by air.

"It may not be all the port's mistake, because they (port authorities)
also fear that many parties are taking advantage of the situation and
trying to send goods through the port for free," Hendri told the Post.

Ferry Ariansyah of Mondo Express said about 217 containers of tsunami
aid, including ambulances, remained at the port due to the high
storage fees.

In Medan, containers of tsunami aid from donor countries are
languishing at Belawan Port due to various reasons, including lack of
funds to claim them and inadequate documentation.

Over 232 containers of basic needs and 58 of vehicles are stuck at the
port even as other aid supplies arrive, Belawan custom office's
coordinator for intelligence and investigation services Muhammad Rusdi
said.

"We're worried that the aid will be useless or damaged if it's stuck
here too long," said Rusdi.

Donors from New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, Switzerland, Britain and
Singapore have sent aid through the Medan port as of January, he said.

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Post-tsunami aid and building civil society in Aceh

Olle Tornquist, Oslo

Donors often say that the major obstacle in the post-tsunami relief
and reconstruction work is poor co-ordination of the organizations
involved. This may be true, but the observation does not help much
unless we discuss why.

International development co-operation has become neo-liberal. A
myriad of state and private actors compete for funds and influence on
imperfect markets in order to reach diffuse goals. In addition, there
is little trust in the state. In Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam it has even
been repressive and suffers still from authoritarianism, corruption
and inefficiency. To improve co-ordination, these factors should be
addressed. But then the reconstruction work and the peace- and
democracy efforts must be combined -- and this is not being done. That
is the basic problem!

In principle, everybody wants to combine peace- and development work,
at best by means of democracy. The question is how. In Sri Lanka
several years of Norwegian facilitation of negotiations between the
government and the Tamil guerrilla indicates that it is not always
fruitful to avoid the political conflicts and to use instead "neutral"
development aid as a carrot to promote peace. By now, the post-tsunami
aid suffers from hidden politicization. Actors on the government side
and the guerrilla give special privileges to their respective
constituencies and sympathizers. At times this even increases the
conflicts.

In Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam the situation has instead improved by way
of explicitly political peace negotiations. Enlightened politicians,
military officers and guerrilla leaders have made compromises on the
division of power and the government of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. This
has been followed by an international monitory mission and some space
for civil society and media to act as watchdogs.

Many say that this was possible only because the tsunami made people
around the world deeply concerned about the problems in Nanggroe Aceh
Darussalam. But that was true of Sri Lanka as well. The major factors
were rather that both Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the new Indonesian
government realized that they would not be able to win the battle
militarily -- and that the fledgling democracy in other parts of
Indonesia stood out as a potentially more fruitful method to handle
the conflicts than violent struggle over independence.

The bottom line is thus that the Indonesian democracy must be
strengthened -- so that it does not only stand out as a potential but
also real alternative. But while the progress in Nanggroe Aceh
Darussalam is due less to the regular reconstruction work than to the
peace- and democracy efforts, the problem is that the former is
swamped with money while the latter is neglected.

Even so it is true that the implementation of the peace accord has
been more successful than expected. GAM and the Government have both
demonstrated the best of intentions. The guerrilla has contributed to
its own decommissioning and dissolved itself. The military and police
withdraw their non-organic forces. The peace monitors are effective.
Local combatants are being compensated to facilitate their
reintegration into society. There are fruitful broad dialogues between
all relevant parties (including civil society groups) on the
governance of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.

But the real obstacles remain. Sustainable integration of the
combatants in society presupposes new jobs within reasonably
non-corrupt reconstruction work. This calls for supervision by a
strong civil society and a working democracy. The Indonesian
Reconstruction Agency is not even mandated to work on post-conflict
issues (but obviously even wants to engage Indonesian soldiers in
supposedly civil rebuilding).

Further, the implementation of the locally approved proposals on the
governance of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam presupposes the approval of
Jakarta. The President, the Vice President and the Government honor
the intentions of the peace accord, but the nationalist opposition and
conservative officers resist it. One method is trying to divide
Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam into several provinces, which would nullify
the peace agreement and the reconstruction work. Another is trying to
block the chances for GAM and various civic groups to participate with
their own parties and independent candidates in local elections.

The important thing is not if the first elections in April are
postponed for a month or two. What is crucial is that both GAM and
civic groups are not marginalised but can participate in a meaningful
way. How would it be possible otherwise to transform violent conflicts
into peaceful politics? The peace accord and the reconstruction work
are at stake. This calls for more than the extension of the mandate of
the peace monitors until after the elections. It calls also for quick
and strong support for civil society and non-partisan political
education among various democratic groups.

So what are well intending donors and other actors doing to promote
this? So far, not much. I fail to understand why. Support for civil
society and human rights based democracy in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
might have been controversial before the Helsinki agreement, but at
this point it is the very basis for the successful completion of the
treaty as well as the reconstruction work, as recognized by both
parties. What can now be less controversial and more productive than
to strengthen, develop and spread Indonesia's own democracy? What
would be more prestigious to Indonesia than to offer the world a
successful model for peace and development by way of meaningful
political democratization?

Of course, I may be wrong. But it is not only the research of Demos
(the Indonesian Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies) that
emphasizes the importance of combining efforts at peace- and
reconstruction by way of democratization. The most recent reports from
the two internationally most reputed research institutes on the
problems in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, the East West Centre and the
International Crisis Group, point in the same direction. So if there
are strong objections on the basis of better analyses it would be good
to know.

The writer is Professor of Political Science and Development Research,
University of Oslo and Academic Co-director of Demos' Research. He can
be reached at olle.tornquist@....

Smaller NGOs struggle in Aceh to help tsunami survivors

By Channel NewsAsia's Indonesia Bureau Chief Sujadi Siswo

For the past 6 months, a mobile library run by Indonesian NGO Yayasan
Anak Bangsa, has been making its rounds visiting barracks all round
Banda Aceh.

Click for other reports:

www.acehkids.org

http://www.acehkids.org/content/view/57/83/

Dear friends,
Thank you for being very supportive to ARF. Without your support we
would not be where we are now with the effort to help reduce the pain
and suffering of the victims of the Dec 26th '04 tsunami in Aceh.
Being a small organization our activities in Aceh have been
implemented in small but significant ways. I would like to give my
heartfelt thanks to you for being part of this journey. Please visit
our website to view the latest update on our initiative in Aceh.
Together we strive for a better Aceh,
Mazalan

Archives - December 20, 2005

http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&artmon=12&fyear=2005#

Aceh

Tonight, as you would have gathered from our preview, a Dateline
special on last December's disastrous Boxing Day tsunami. It may come
as rude shock to many that, a year down the track, only a fraction of
the people made homeless by the giant wave have been resettled
in permanent housing.

More than 2 million Asians are still living either in temporary
shelters or in tents, despite the presence of hundreds of aid agencies
and billions of dollars promised in international aid, including $1
billion from this country.

That said, the worst-affected area was and still is the Indonesian
province of Aceh, where they say permanent housing won't be completed
until mid-2007, and, only then, if everything goes according to plan.
Here's Chris Hammer.


REPORTER: Chris Hammer

Aceh has no clearly defined wet season. Torrential rains come all year
round, creating misery for the more than
60,000 people still living in tents one year after the tsunami.

People like Ainul, widowed by the tidal wave, and her four surviving
children.
She's sick of the tent.

AINUL, (Translation): When it rains a lot, when it's muddy and when
it's hot.

REPORTER: Do you have any idea how long you will be here in this tent
now or when you might move?

AINUL, (Translation): No I don't know.

REPORTER: So no-one's told you when you might move?

AINUL, (Translation): No.

By rights Ainul and her family should have been out of their tent long
ago. Her son Dede takes me to a house that was built for the family
five months ago by a Malaysian NGO, but they can't move in.

DEDE,AINUL'S SON (Translation): There are no amenities yet,there's no
well, no power.

REPORTER: Have you got a key?

DEDE, (Translation): Some have been handed over, some haven't because
the houses aren't ready.


Billions of dollars in aid have been committed to Aceh, but a year
after the earthquake and tsunami, progress on rebuilding is sporadic
and painfully slow.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER US PRESIDENT: It's very impressive. You see other
people have painted their walls and they've tried to individualise
their homes, it's quite moving, really.

Former US president Bill Clinton
is a special UN envoy for tsunami relief. He's come to Aceh to check
on progress.

REPORTER: Mr President, Chris Hammer from SBS Television in Australia,
this morning I visited...

At his departure press conference, I recount the predicament of Ainul
and her uninhabitable house.

...what do you say to her and people like her?

BILL CLINTON: What is the answer to the power question? Maybe I should
ask Mr Kuntoro to answer
because I don't know the answer.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto is the Jakarta-based head of the BRR -the
Indonesian authority overseeing reconstruction in Aceh. I'm told he
isn't available for interview, but I manage to intercept him a few
days later as he inspects Australian-funded reconstruction work at
Banda Aceh's port.He tells me that of about 120,000 houses planned,
only about 16,000 have been finished and the move to permanent housing
won't be completed until mid-2007.

KUNTORO MANGKUSUBROTO, BRR HEAD: Well, actually, the rehabilitation
and reconstruction of this area just started in the month of June or
July. So well, we are very grateful for the money here but still
building houses cannot be in one week or two week or one month, two
months.

Out in the villages, many people are fending for themselves. After
three decades of insurgency, there's widespread distrust of the BRR
and its Javanese hierarchy.
Abu Nasir Sufi is one of the founders of the GAM independence movement.

ABU NASIR, (Translation): The BRR, they all get big wages, they've all
got nice cars. They get 25 to 75 million rupiah a month. Say they've
got 100 employees, how much is being spent on wages? So all the money
that should reach the Acehnese people affected by the tsunami is being
used for wages.

When the tsunami hit Aceh last December, images of Lamba-uk were
beamed around the world. Its mosque remaining intact while the village
surrounding it was swept away. Of 6,500 villagers, a little more than
a thousand survived.
Here I meet community leader Hasballah Ahba, he looks out on the
shantytown
the surviving villagers have managed to scrape together.

He tells me the Americans have put in a new water supply, but the
Indonesian authorities have given no indication when power or sewerage
may be connected.
Yet Hasbollah and the others are determined to rebuild.

HASBALLAH AHBA, COMMUNITY LEADER: First, I don't want my village is
lost, and I don't want to stop the people to help us so much because
we not need to buy the land because the land is our own. I don't want
our village lost, that's why I'm back from Medan…...to motivate the
people.

The day I visit here it isn't rain but the 43-degree heat that's
making life in the tents unbearable. The Turkish Red Crescent promised
1,000 houses back in March, so far they've built only this one model home.
Not far away is the shack of English woman Rebecca Dauncey, who's
lived in Aceh for six years. She's moved to Lamba-uk to help her
friends rebuild their lives.

REBECCA DAUNCEY: Well, I've been living in one of these shacks here
for over a month and there's no cats in the village, so every shack is
full of rats. There's no sewage, there's no electricity, no phones
here, and this is a year down the road.

Resentment towards the UN, the Indonesian authorities and the
international aid agencies is beginning to emerge.

REBECCA DAUNCEY: It's unforgivable that it's been so slow, actually.
Considering the amount of money that was donated here, to have people
still living in the conditions that they are living in a year later,
there is no excuse at all.

DAVID HELMSEY: It's designed to be cool, to have lot of ventilation,
you see the windows.

David Helmsey is an engineer with
Australian charity World Vision.

DAVID HELMSEY: ...through some screening that will be installed.

World Vision is committed to building more than 4,000 houses near the
capital Banda Aceh. The NGO was here
within days of the disaster, yet construction didn't begin for nine
months. So far only 233 houses have been completed.

DAVID HELMSEY: Yeah, our approach is to spend a lot of effort, a lot
of energy upfront in the planning stage so that we build a permanent
community that suits the needs of all the people who live there over
the long haul.

REPORTER: I mean, looking back, do you think it would have been
possible to do it more quickly?

DAVID HELMSEY: I don't believe it's gone too slow. I believe that our
approach, World Vision's approach has been the correct one.

World Vision expects to complete its 4,000 houses by next October, but
it's clear other NGOs have made commitments they will be unable to
meet. All around Banda Aceh, the land has been cleared but rebuilding
is sporadic. And everywhere there are the banners of international aid
organisations marking out their territory.

STEVE HOLTOM, AUSTRALIAN BUSINESSMAN: It was sort of like a land grab
after the... ..when the clean-up started. All these NGOs ran around
the place and said.....and put their flags in the ground. These flags
buried in the ground all around the state with NGOs' names on them
saying "I'm going to do this." But the flags are still there and some
have got tents there and some have got water tanks there but the NGOs
that have made all those promises back in the early days, a lot of
those we learnt today have actually halved their construction plans.

Eddy Purwanto is the deputy head of the reconstruction authority. He
has direct responsibility for housing.

EDDY PURWANTO: Actually we already evaluated all the performance of
the NGO and we are trying to get as much as possible their commitment
to build soon.

REPORTER: So are you going to say to some if they can't meet their
commitments, they should hand it over to someone else?

EDDY PURWANTO: Yes.

REPORTER: Have any NGOs done that?

EDDY PURWANTO: We have several of them already handed over to other
NGOs or to the governments.

The Australian Government has committed $1 billion towards rebuilding
Aceh. This Australian-funded team is mapping tsunami-affected villages
so people can be sure of who owns what in a dramatically altered
landscape. It's important work, but it's slow going.
Of the $1 billion less than 10% had been spent by the end of November.

DR BERNADETTE WHITELUM, AUSAID: How much remains to be committed is
really a decision for the Indonesian and Australian government to work
on together and they continue to discuss it and make decisions
depending on the need.

STEVE HOLTOM: Of the Australian Government money, as an Australian
business, it's quite embarrassing, because there's just nothing to
show and everyone up here knows the Australian Government so far has
spent very little. There's nothing here to show for that amount of money.

Despite the ongoing housing crisis, progress is being made here,
sometimes remarkable progress. This is where the village of Lambung
once stood. Before the tsunami, 2,500 people lived here, only three
women and one child survived, plus 200 men who were out at sea
fishing.
What this village has managed to achieve in the past year is truly
inspirational.

YUBAHAR ZAWI: This for our living, this one for me so we got the
bedroom here.

For a week, the men grieved uncontrollably. And then village elder
Yubahar Zawi gathered them together.

YUBAHAR ZAWI: Over here, you see, this open.

Using techniques learnt from his grandfather and material scavenged
from the tsunami debris, they began to build a traditional Acehnese house.

YUBAHAR ZAWI: Ah, we don't want to live in the tents before, because
we hungry, we dirty, so I teach my people in the village how to build
the house there, because we know that's the end of the worst. I think
we must work together, work hard. But then...we must work hard to
build. They forgot the tsunami, if they remember, it make them crazy.

One year on and the men have built this new village, using local, all
natural materials. The raised houses - cool, well ventilated and
earthquake proof - have become a hit. The villagers have been
commissioned to build 700 more. In the space of a year, the men of Lambung
have transformed themselves from fishermen to builders. Meet them, and
it's hard to believe they've lost so much.

YUBAHAR ZAWI: We have no cry, don't remember tsunami, we're going to
have new life you see? A new life, because if we sat every day doing
nothing... so we have to forget that, ah we start the new life.

Two Lambung men have already remarried, another 10 expect to do so
within the next year.
Throughout Aceh, there are people
working towards the promise of a new life. Before the tsunami, Aceh
was a closed and fear-filled society, wracked by three decades of
combat between separatist guerrillas and the Indonesian army. Now a
peace deal struck in August shows every sign of lasting.

ABU NASIR SUFI (Translation): I'm happy because there are no more
casualties. It used to be that every day and every night we'd hear of
innocent civilian casualties.

No-one will ever say that the tsunami was a good thing,but many in
Aceh hope that good will come of it.

AZWAR HASAN: Psychologically, mentally, people are living,
or were living very, very, very scary situation. But after the tsunami
came,
one of very positive things, and I think that it feels from any single
Acehnese
that, we are free to do what we like to do. Free meaning that you can
go, you can work without worrying that suddenly there going to be,
what you call it, fighting between two different groups.

In Lamba-uk, as in the rest of Aceh, there is a determination to
concentrate on the here and now.

REPORTER: This is where you will live?

MAN: Yeah, my live, yes, yes, my live here. And we maybe dead here,
later, later. But not yet? Yeah, not yet. Yeah.

Reconstruction is slow but progress is being made and for the first
time in a long time, the Acehnese have something to smile about.

Rehabilitasi Rumah Paska Bencana Tsunami Sesuai Dengan Prinsip

Keadilan dan Persamaan Hak

Muamar Vebry, ST, M.Sc

Researcher for the Aceh Institute

Urban, Regional and Environment Research Division

B.Sc in Architecture (Syiah Kuala University), MSc in Housing ( Science University of Malaysia)

Philosophy of Doctor Student in Urban and Regional Planning ( Science University of Malaysia )

muamar.vebry@...

+62 812 69 88641

A. Prinsip Keadilan dan Persamaan Hak

Seperti yang kita ketahui bahwa dalam rekontruksi dan rehabilitasi Aceh dan Nias hampir 80.000 unit rumah berhak mendapatkan bantuan rehabilitasi (perbaikan rumah). Jumlah yang besar serta berbagai tingkatan kerusakan yang berbeda menjadikan proses penilaian terhadap kerusakan tersebut menjadi suatu hambatan dan halangan yang besar, terutama mengenai besarnya bantuan yang diberikan kepada para penerima manfaat dalam kriteria tersebut.

Memastikan keadilan dan bantuan tersebut mencapai sasarannya bukanlah pekerjaan yang mudah, sebagai contoh dimana terdapat masyarakat miskin yang rumahnya berukuran 60 meter persegi dan rumah tersebut rusak parah, sementara terdapat juga masyarakat yang kaya dan memiliki rumah berukuran 400 meter persegi dan juga rusak parah. Disini diperlukan mekanisme penilaian yang cukup baik dan adil, dimana dapat dilakukan melalui fit and proper test agar dapat dipastikan bantuan keuangan tersebut betul-betul menyentuh pihak-pihak yang benar-benar memerlukan, terutama kaum yang miskin dan tidak memiliki modal untuk memperbaiki rumahnya kembali.

Bagaimanakan agar program rehabilitasi perumahan tersebut dapat mengenai sasaran dan efektif tanpa mempersulit pelaksanaannya dilapangan? Prinisip utama ialah melahirkan peraturan yang benar-benar sedehana, adaptif, expandable dan fleksibel terhadap kondisi di lapangan. Selain itu peraturan tersebut juga haruslah menjunjung tinggi nilai-nilai keadilan sosial dan pemerataan. Berdasarkan prinsip keadilan, maka sebuah rumah hanya berhak mendapatkan satu paket rehabilitasi, meskipun didalam rumah tersebut sebelumnya dihuni oleh 2 keluarga.

Disini penulis menyarankan agar plafon biaya rehab dapat dikatakan "SAMA" dengan biaya rekontruksi dalam blue print, yaitu maksimum 28,8 juta rupiah. Namun harga plafond tersebut harus disesuaikan dengan peningkatan harga bahan bangunan berdasarkan indeks waktu dan jarak serta peningkatan inflasi. Harga riil rehab per rumah haruslah dinilai terlebih dahulu oleh masyarakat yang didampingi oleh para fasilitator teknis (arsitek dan insinyur sipil) yang secara detail akan melakukan penghitungan volume rehabilitasi per rumah untuk mengetahui total biaya yang dibutuhkan.

Dalam penghitungan rehab rumah sebaiknya tidaklah berdasarkan kepada standar luasan 36 meter persegi (luas bangunan yang dibangun untuk korban yang kehilangan rumah), namun haruslah dihitung secara keseluruhan dari luasan asal/ekisting rumah. (misal: luasan rumah yang perlu di rehab seluas 150 meter persegi, maka penilaian biaya rehab akan dihitung berdasarkan luasan keseluruhan rumah tersebut)

B. Beberapa Kasus Rehabilitasi

Dalam suatu kasus di kampung Keramat Banda Aceh, ditemukan rumah dengan ukuran 120 meter persegi rusak berat baik unsur pengisi dan atap bangunan, namun kondisi strukturnya (kolom dan balok) masih layak pakai. Setelah dihitung oleh para fasilitator teknis, maka diperkirakan rumah tersebut membutuhkan biaya rehabilitasi sebesar 25 juta rupiah. Disini disarankan bantuan rehab akan diberikan kepada sang pemilik rumah sebesar Rp. 25 juta, dan tidak melebihi harga plafon yaitu 28,8 juta rupiah.

Ditempat kampung yang sama, pada kasus lainnya, ditemukan sebuah rumah dengan luasan 250 meter persegi dengan kriteria rusak berat, diperkirakan biaya rehab akan mencapi lebih dari Rp. 80 juta. Bantuan maksimal diberikan hanya sebanyak hanya 28,8 juta sesuai dengan plafon biaya rekontruksi. Biaya rehabilitasi yang selebihnya merupakan tanggung jawab dari sang pemilik rumah itu sendiri. Hal ini lebih berlandaskan kepada prinsip keadilian, dimana korban yang termasuk kedalam kriteria rehabilitasi tersebut dinilai masih memiliki asset yang berupa rumah dan tanah, meskipun rumah mereka rusak. Korban dalam kriteria tersebut dinilai lebih bernasib baik daripada korban yang kehilangan rumah atupun korban yang kehilangan tanah dan rumahnya.

Lain lagi perkaranya dengan rumah sewa, terdapat sebuah kasus dimana sebuah rumah sewa dalam kondisi rusak dan memerlukan rehabilitasi. Maka pembiayaan rehabilitasi dapat diberikan kepada sang pemilik rumah sewa tersebut. Pemilik rumah sewa akan mengelola biaya rehabilitasi dan sang penyewa akan memperolehi pembebasan sewa selama satu tahun. Hal tersebut dinilai cukup adil untuk para penyewa rumah yang rumah sewanya masih layak untuk direhabilitasi.

C. Rehabilitasi Dengan Modal Sendiri

Jika sang pemilik rumah sudah melakukan rehabilitasi dengan biaya sendiri tanpa dibiayai oleh pemerintah/ pelaksana program (NGO). Ide pertama ialah dimana sang pemilik rumah diharapkan mendapatkan bantuan keuangan sebagai kompensasi rehabilitasi yang dilakukannya dalam range 5 juta hingga 10 juta rupiah. Namun hal ini perlu ditelusuri lebih lanjut melalui mekanisme verivikasi sosial dan juga penilaian teknis oleh para fasilitator teknis.

Namun sekali lagi hal ini dapat memicu pertentangan, selain itu juga sulit sekali untuk dapat memastikan besaran atau volume yang telah dikerjakan dalam rehabilitasi yang dilakukan sendiri oleh masyarakat. Ide lainnya ialah tidak memberikan kompensasi apapun kepada masyarakat pada kriteria tersebut untuk menghidarkan konflik dan "permainan" di lapangan. Hal ini lebih didasari karena Negara Indonesia memang cukup "sial" dalam mengurusi biaya-biaya kompensasi, seperti contohnya biaya kompensasi BBM (Bahan Bakar Minyak). Dikhawatirkan dana kompensasi tersebut dapat salah sasaran dan memicu konflik di masyarakat. Selain itu masyarakat yang mampu merehabilitasi rumahnya secara individu dianggap lebih mampu dan masih memiliki akses ke modal untuk biaya rehabilitasi.

D. Kalsifikasi Rehabilitasi

Kelayakan minimal rumah untuk di rehabilitasi ialah jika hanya kondisi struktur utama (Balok dan kolom) tidak rusak dan atau hanya rusak ringan. Jika kerusakan struktural berada tahapan sedang ataupun cukup parah, maka rumah tersebut akan dirobohkan dan pemilik akan mendapatkan bantuan paket rekontruksi.

Pada table dibawah ini dilampirkan level kerusakan dan alokasi pembiayaan yang dapat diberikan untuk para korban tsunami:

E. Mekanisme Pembiayaan dan Pelaksanaan Kegiatan

Mekanisme pembiayaan rehabilitasi rumah ialah berbentuk bantuan keuangan kepada para pemilik rumah. Hal ini dinilai lebih efektif daripada pemerintah /NGO atau pelaksana program ikut membantu merehabilitasi rumah tersebut. Dengan pemberian bantuan keuangan tersebut maka pemilik rumah akan lebih kreatif dan dapat meningkatkan kualitas rehabilitasi sesuai dengan kemapuannya masing-masing.

Namun terlebih dahulu harus diatur mekanisme pencairan dana terlebih dahulu, apakah dana tersebut akan dicairkan secara bertahap dengan klaim per progress kemajuan rehabilitasi, ataupun dalam bentuk block grant yang lebih memberikan kesempatan untuk masyarakat agar lebih kreatif dalam pengelolaan dana. Namun sekali lagi mekanisme monitoring dan evaluasi juga selalu merupakan kunci keberhasilan untuk memastikan penggunanaan dana benar-benar tepat sasaran.

Sementara itu mekanisme penyaluran dana dapat dilakukan mealui melalui mekanisme clustering/kelompok yang dapat disebut dengan KRR (Kelompok Rehabilitasi Rumah). Pembiayaan tidak boleh dicampur dengan clusture/kelompok KPR (Kelompok Pembangunan Rumah) untuk menghindarkan kekacauan manajemen. Mekanisme clustering ini dapat dilakukan dengan pembukaan rekening bank bersama antara masyarakat (kelompok) didalam suatu kawasan ataupun juga melalui mekanisme pencairan dana melalui rekening individual.

Dalam pelaksanaannya, maka diharapkan agar kegiatan rehabilitasi rumah sebaiknya dilaksanakan bersamaan dengan pelaksanan rekontruksi rumah untuk mempermudah dan menghemat biaya mobilisasi logistik. Selain itu hal ini juga dapat sedikit menghindarkan terjadinya kecemburuan dan friksi sosial di dalam masyarakat, dan secepatnya dapat merelokasi kembali pengungsi yang rumahnya dapat direhab untuk kembali kerumahnya yang telah selesai direhabilitasi secepatnya.

The cover story of next Sunday's New York Times Magazine is Barry
Bearak's coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami, focusing on six
Acehnese survivors and their experiences.

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Apologies. I neglected to mention that the article will be online by
11/27. I had read an advanced copy last night en route home from work.

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salam,

found update from BBC...

Rennta

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/asia_pac_aceh_village_six_months_on/html/1.stm

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Please find new updates and articles on Aceh from Acehnese on the
ground: http://www.acehinstitute.org/english_version.htm

hi juga sartika..:)
sekalian menyapa Bang mazalan dan Bang Saiful...gimana
kabar Aceh? gimana kabar ARF?. Belakangan perhatian
pada tersedot ke peristiwa gempa Pakistan, bom di
Jordan, kerusuhan di Perancis dll dst. Sudah saatnya
nih kita kembali ke Aceh...:)

Ditunggu updatenya Bang Mazalan...:)

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Sorry for cross-posting:

My piece in The Jakarta Post:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/editorial.asp

Also in:
http://www.acehinstitute.org/english_version.htm

Saiful

Assalamualaikum,

Pak Saiful,

glad to hear that you reached Ithaca safely. Just to
let you know that we are already in KL, and we would
not miss a chance to see you if we're still in
Syracuse. Insya Allah, kalau ada kesempatan kita
berjumpa lagi sama ada di KL atau Aceh... or maybe in
NY :)

Send our salam to kak dian, your kids, abg mazalan and
the whole family. We miss them a lot.

Salam,

Azlan and Roz



           
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Assalamualaikum,

Pak Saiful,

glad to hear that you reached Ithaca safely. Just to
let you know that we are already in KL, and we would
not miss a chance to see you if we're still in
Syracuse. Insya Allah, kalau ada kesempatan kita
berjumpa lagi sama ada di KL atau Aceh... or maybe in
NY :)

Send our salam to kak dian, your kids, abg mazalan and
the whole family. We miss them a lot.

Salam,

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Dear Friends,

I am back in Ithaca to resume my study at Cornell. As
you might know, I have been back to Aceh for 8 months
to help my extended family, villagers and other
tsunami survivors with whatever capacity I have. And
the capacity has been very much depend on or take up
from all of your helps through Aceh Relief Fund. My
family in Aceh and here in Ithaca and I thank you all
very much for your kind and generous continues
supports.

It is still very difficult for us to believe that our
missing family members, 16 of them, including my
sister, her husband, and daughter, my brother, my
grandmother are still missing, all considered dead. I
could not find any of their bodies. Three homes where
they lived, and one where we used to live before
coming to Ithaca, are totally destroyed.

When I was in Aceh, I found many people with similar
situation to our family situation. Many more have even
worse tragedy to bear. As the oldest son and grand son
in the family, I have been trying to be strong and
doing my level best to help others. The fact that more
than 1 million people in Aceh alone got affected by
the quake and tsunami helps a bit to realize that we
are not alone facing this catasthrope. Half million
people in Aceh are still living under tents or
makeshift temporary shelters to date. The number of
confirmed deaths are not less than 150,000 while
75,000 are still listed as missing.

First days back in Ithaca, many parts and scenes of my
experience in my hometown Aceh are still so clear in
my mind. I still can not totally let our missing
family members go yet, missing them a lot, and wishing
that I could have done more... Worse is when I could
not help to think the last minutes of those tsunami
victims, especially those I know personally, among my
family, friends, and colleagues alike.

The only cure to this feeling is when I realize, or
when my wife, Dian, reminds me that I got many more
friends, brothers, and sisters after the tsunami that
took some of my beloved family members and friends.
Yes, you all have become our friends, and some has
become like our own brothers and sisters.

You could not imagine how I feel to know that you all
have been there for me, my family and Acehnese people
       . Some of you who did not event know me and my
family  came to our doorsteps to over helps and
contribute so very generously. Some sent checks to our
address without event worrying whether it reaches us
or not. Many called, sent emails to warm our hearts.
Some came to directly help packing and do paper works
for my trip. Others do erands for my family I left
back in Ithaca, sent food, gave rides and take care of
my family.

If I am asked what is the biggest learning experience
I got from my works in Aceh, I will definitely answer:
"People to people solidarity works the best to help
victims of any catasthrope. Not the big state
machineries, nor state to state good relations, nor
multi donor agencies and NGOs".

It was the fact in Aceh, it was, I think, what happend
in Katrina affected areas, and just recently, it is
happening in South Asia quake impacted regions,
especially in Pakistan. Therefore, we should encourage
our members of communities who is taking initiatives
to bring direct helps to survivors of these disasters.

There is still much to be done in Aceh. And ARF is
committed to continue its supports for at least parts
of the devastated communities in Aceh. We shall be
able to do this with your continues support.

I personnaly want to apologize for not being able to
regularly update reports for our ARF website
(www.acehrelief.org). I hope to do so  in the near
future.

We thank you once again for all your kind helps and
supports.

Saiful, Dian
Saifan, Bila & Mia




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Dear all

Nice join with this mailing list may be we can share the new
imformation  about Aceh.

I am a Solidaritas Pembangunan Anak Negeri (SoPAN) chairman, and SoPAN
wokr in comunity to rebuild Sosial condition with participation rule
with villagers post Tsunami and Conflik.

We worked in Bireun, and choose 5 sub distrik, Kecamatan Peusangan,
kecamatan Jangka, kecamatan Kutablang, Kecamatan Gandapura, kecamatan
Makmur, all this sub distrik is a conflik area.

Our program :
- Economi.
- Education.
- medical.
- Women and children.

NOT: sory my eanglist not so good, so some time i send Solidaritas
Pembangunan Anak Negeri (SoPAN) profile.

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Another beautiful lesson from Aceh, as BBC online
reports today:

Hundreds of prisoners in Aceh who chose not to escape
from their jails during the tsunami are to have their
sentences halved, a minister said on Thursday.
About 300 people will have their prison terms cut
because "they are deemed to have high integrity," said
Justice and Human Rights Minister Hamid Awaluddin.

"They actually could escape, and we do not have data
on them," he said.

"But they reported themselves and helped provide
humanitarian assistance voluntarily."


more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4745483.stm



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Large scale corruption has marred tsunami reconstruction in Aceh
province, with more than US$100 million ( 101.5 million) earmarked
for disaster relief unaccounted for, a legislator and an aid worker
were quoted as saying Friday.

Firdaus Illyas, from aid group Aceh Emergency Commission, told a
parliamentary hearing that graft had occurred in the construction of
emergency housing, Koran Tempo daily reported.

He also said that local officials had dramatically overstated the
number of refugees so as to be able to claim more relief funds _ a
common practice in disaster areas elsewhere in Indonesia, the paper
reported.

Lawmaker A.S. Hikam said 1.2 trillion Indonesian rupiah (US$122.7
million; 101.5 million) of funds had disappeared, Tempo reported. He
gave no more details.

Parliament was scheduled to summon seven ministers in charge of Aceh
reconstruction projects on Friday to discuss the allegations, the
paper said.

The graft allegations appeared to relate to Indonesian government
funds allotted to Aceh soon after the Dec. 26 disaster, not the
millions of dollars of international aid spent over the last few
months in the region, which lost more than 130,000 people to the
giant waves.

The reports will concern international donors and the Indonesian
government, which has vowed to stop corrupt officials stealing money
earmarked for survivors in Aceh province, on the northern tip of
Sumatra Island.

Corruption remains endemic at all levels of Indonesia society
despite vows by successive governments to crack down on the practice.

By Kathy Marks in Banda Aceh
27 June 2005


The tsunami that raged across the Indian Ocean six months ago
yesterday, levelled populated areas totalling more than 200 square
miles in Indonesia, the country worst affected, according to an
official report released on Saturday.

The study, by agencies including the International Organisation of
Migration, contains the first detailed assessment of the impact on
Aceh province. It reveals the scale of devastation caused by the
massive earthquake off Sumatra Island, the biggest for 40 years, and
tidal waves that reached miles inland.

More than one-third of settled areas in Aceh, on the northern tip of
Sumatra, were flattened. A total of 116,880 houses were damaged or
destroyed, with 2,580 mosques, 1,662 schools, 1,416 markets and
street kiosks, 1,412 government buildings, and 693 clinics and
hospitals.

The report was released as civic leaders and international donors
marked the six-month milestone with a ceremony in a mosque in Ulee
Lhee, a ruined coastal suburb of the capital, Banda Aceh. They
acknowledged frustrations at the slow pace of recovery, and promised
it would soon speed up.

Andrew Steer, head of the World Bank in Jakarta, said the task was
unimaginably complex, but "by October or November you will get a
sense of 'wow', this place is humming'".

The World Bank said at the weekend that rebuilding had got off to a
slow start, partly because of "bottlenecks in the machinery of
government and deficiencies in local authorities".

The UN's resident co-ordinator in Banda Aceh, Bo Asplund, said he
expected most of the 600,000 displaced people to be in permanent or
semi-permanent housing in two years. "Many people are impatient,
especially those in tents," he said. "Construction of all houses
needs to be done as soon as possible."

Infrastructure was ravaged by the tsunami. The report, for the
government's National Planning Agency, says more than 400 miles of
arterial roads were damaged or destroyed, 850 miles of local roads
and 377 miles of provincial highway. A total of 2,267 bridges and
9,122 aqueducts were smashed. In areas, 80 per cent of all houses
vanished.

The government's Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency, which is
coordinating the recovery effort, said 9 per cent of civil servants
were killed, a toll that reached 20 per cent in Banda Aceh, a key
factor hindering the province's capacity to get back on its feet.

Some 2,500 teaching staff and assistants were killed, leaving
150,000 children without education. Thousands of health workers also
perished.

Saturday's ceremony featured prayers from the Koran and traditional
Acehnese dances. One survivor, a schoolgirl called Nada Lutfiah,
said she had lost her parents and her brother and sister. "I am
alone," she said.

The World Today - Tuesday, 14 June , 2005  12:29:00
Reporter: Anne Barker
ELEANOR HALL: In Indonesia's Aceh Province, bureaucratic delays and
concerns about corruption have stymied efforts to rebuild the
communities destroyed in last year's tsunami.

It's only in the last week or so that reconstruction has finally
begun in a few select areas and there's a growing sense of
frustration among survivors who are still homeless and without jobs
after six months, and Anne Barker has just been to Aceh and filed
this report.

ANNE BARKER: At a community roll call at Lhoknga village, near Banda
Aceh, tsunami refugees receive their daily ration of noodles and
rice.

For six months they've relied solely on aid to survive, since the
tsunami swept away their homes, their jobs and for many, their
entire families.

Across Aceh tens of thousands of victims still live in flimsy tents,
dotted among a landscape of rubble that was once residential streets.

And many, like Umar Ali and his wife Rosna, wonder if they'll ever
live in their own house again.

UMAR ALI (translated): It is impossible. I cannot imagine I can
build my own house from my own money. The only possibility is to get
assistance from outside, foreign NGOs for example, to help us build
our house again.

ANNE BARKER: A year ago, Umar and Rosna Ali were middle class, with
a comfortable house and well-paying jobs.

But the tsunami took everything, including their only children, two
daughters aged 17 and 20

Now they spend their days scavenging in the rubble for scrap metal
to supplement their meagre ration.

UMAR ALI (translated): They sell the scrap iron to a trader here,
and they get sometimes, 20,000 sometimes 8,000 a day. Today they get
10,000 a day. That's how they survive.

ANNE BARKER: There's a mounting sense of frustration in Aceh, even
anger, at the grindingly slow pace of reconstruction

Six months on, many of the worst hit areas appear unchanged since
the tsunami struck.

Bureaucratic delays, the loss of land registers and the fear for
many of returning to land so close to the sea, have all hampered
efforts to rebuild. And only a fraction of all foreign aid has been
handed over, because authorities take painstaking measures to ensure
the money is spent wisely.

Even the head of Aceh's rehabilitation agency, Kuntoro
Mangkusubroto, shares the community's anger.

KUNTORO MANGKUSUBROTO: The people are really frustrated. They live
in a tent, they live in what you call, in the barracks, okay. They
are waiting for a signal for them to go back and there's no signal
coming. So they are really frustrated.

ANNE BARKER: This tiny fishing village of Deah Baro is one of the
very few places near Banda Aceh where new houses are finally going
up.

But it's the survivors themselves who are building their own homes.
The aid agency Oxfam has supplied the materials for 40 houses, and
the rehabilitation agency is giving residents basic training in
bricklaying and concreting.

Qxfam's Manasi Rajagopalan says the first houses will be finished in
three weeks.

MANASI RAJAGOPALAN: We've given them the materials and they have
identified the 40 most vulnerable households here. So that means,
you know, people who have lost the head of the household, the women
who are widowed, even children. So that's what you're seeing here.
These groups of men doing all this work here.

ANNE BARKER: Of course, new bricks and mortar will never replace
those that died. Deah Baro was one of the worst hit areas and lost
hundreds of homes and countless lives.

But Manasi Rajagopalan says paradoxically, the population here may
even have grown.

MANASI RAJAGOPALAN: The children have been orphaned, or people who
have lost lot of their family, they're moving in with families who
are not related to them, or they are moving in with relatives, which
is why we see a lot of movement as well, between you know, people
coming in from other places into Deah Baro or people moving out and
living with relatives. So are we building houses for just one
person – no.

ELEANOR HALL: And that's Manasi Rajagopalan from Oxfam in Aceh,
speaking to Anne Barker.

- UK News 06/10/05

The full horrific scale of the Boxing Day tsunami that killed more
than 200,000 people has been disclosed by scientists.

At one of the worst-hit sites, Banda Aceh in Sumatra, waves reached
heights of more than 49ft and flooded 25 square miles, moving the
coastline a mile inland.


The water submerged land up to 82ft above sea level in Banda Aceh,
which lies on the north-western tip of the Indonesian island.

Two detailed surveys were made of the effects of the tsunami, on
Sumatra and Sri Lanka.

Along the east coast of Sri Lanka, tsunami waves averaged heights of
30 to 35ft, and land was submerged by water 41ft deep.

The researchers, who reported their findings in the journal Science,
gathered field data, studied satellite images, and interviewed eye
witnesses.

Local people described one to three waves, and the sea being sucked
out for hundreds of metres between the first and second. The worst
devastation was in Sumatra at Banda Aceh, and the nearby area of
Lohknga.

Tsunami expert Dr Jose Borrero, from the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles, was one of the first investigators to
visit after the waves hit.

He made on-the-spot measurements, spoke to eyewitnesses, and
collected physical evidence such as the height at which bark could
be seen stripped from trees.

These data were later combined with information from satellite
images. The findings showed that waves inundated about 25 square
miles between Banda Aceh and Lohknga, nine miles away.

A strong earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra on Wednesday,
prompting panic on the island off Simeulue in Indonesia.

Witnesses said inhabitants of Sinabang, the main town on the island
of Simeulue, rushed out of their homes and offices and gathered in
the streets after the tremor hit at 1:28am (local time).

Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics office said the quake,
centred some 33 kilometres under the ocean floor 95 kilometres south-
west of Sinabang, measured 5.8 on the Richter scale.

But the Hong Kong observatory measured the large tremor at 6.3.

A massive earthquake measuring magnitude 9.3 shook the region on
December 26 and triggered a deadly tsunami that killed more than
128,000 people in Aceh province.

Simeulue was also hit by an 8.7 quake on March 28 that caused large-
scale damage to buildings and left many people too afraid to return
to their homes.

The quake claimed more than 900 lives on the neighbouring island of
Nias.

- AFP

JAKARTA: A camp for the displaced in Indonesia's Aceh province
yesterday held ceremonies to celebrate the mass wedding of 23
couples made up of tsunami victims, a report said.

The festivities, which included music and dance performances, were
held in the tented camp at the foot of a television relay station in
the Aceh Besar district yesterday, the state Antara news agency
said.

The head of the wedding organising committee, Awi Muhammad Maulan,
told the Kompas newspaper that 10 of the women getting married were
widows.

"We are happy and thankful that the committee held our wedding
reception," said Syekh Syam, 60, who wed Mariati, 34.

Syekh Syam lost his wife and children in the Dec 26 tsunami disaster
while Mariati lost her husband. They met at the camp.

Teuku Cut Nyak Zahyani, 35, married Zorana, 31, who had taken care
of him as he recovered from injuries he suffered when he was swept
away by the tsunami. – AFP

Dear Friends,

I am finally back in town and, hopefully, will be more productive in
posting relevant news and stories about Aceh, as well as, about the
progress on our relief efforts in the area.

Truly appreciative of your support,
Mazalan