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KAREBA PALU KOROdecember 2018 - II issue #4
The impact of flash flood (11/12) in Salua.
Photo: Titik Susana Ristiawaty/ERCB
FLASH FLOOD IN SALUA, BATHING WASHING AND LATRINE FACILITIES WERE SWEPT AWAY
On Tuesday 11 December evening, again flash flood struck
Salua Village, Kulawi Sub-District, Sigi District, especially in RT
(neighborhood cluster) 1 and RT 2 which are located in Hamlet 3
(Note: a hamlet is divided into several RWs and one RW consists
of several RTs.) The event occurred at 7.30 p.m. local time when
the community were praying in a local mosque and they were
shocked by the sound of roaring water.
“When I was praying last night, suddenly I heard a women
crying and screaming, saying that the water had reached the
community settlement,” said Jusman Lahudo (59), a Salua Village
community member. According to him, the flash flood was
the hugest and the worst one ever since 1992. Fortunately, a
community member who was sick and his house was isolated,
was able to be evacuated soon to a hilly area in the eastern part
of the village.
Dewi Fatimah (29), a teacher in Salua Pelangi Kindergarden,
whose house was impacted by the flash flood said that the rain
was not either too heavy or too long, however, all of a sudden
water had run into the community settlement and passed her
house. Dewi is also a volunteer who teaches kids in Children
Friendly Zone facility which is contributed by the Emergency
Response Capacity Building (ERCB).
“I was panic and scared because the water was getting more
and more,” said Dewi.
“With this current situation, where should we stay now?” Dewi
continued talking and wiping her tears while looking at her
ruined house.
There are 79 households impacted by the flash flood. The 79
houses are damaged and 40 among them are seriously damaged
and could not be inhabited. The height of the muddy water is as
high as the knee of an adult. Small bars of wood are mixing with
mud and the flood water.
“Up to now (12 p.m. local time) the water is still flowing in Salua
Village and some heavy equipment are trying to clean up the
debris in the river and the bridge,” said Arul from Karsa Institute
who was with the ERCB team directly heading to Salua Village on
Wednesday morning (12/12).
The emergency Elementary School and Junior High School
buildings established post the earthquake are not able to be used
because they are full of debris and some school materials were
carried away by the flash flood.
“The examination today in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (a Moslem
Elementary School) that was planned to be the last day must be
cancelled,” added Arul.
Continued to page 6...
NEWS ON CENTRAL SULAWESI EMERGENCY RESPONSE
KAREBA PALU KORO
A CHILDREN FRIENDLY SPACE, SECURED FEELING FOR THE CHILDREN
Most of the time a not descent environment condition post
a disaster would cause another problem. A comfort feeling and
more than that is a secured feeling, are difficult to perceive under
this circumstance. This situation also happens in Central Sulawesi
post the earthquake, tsunami and liquefaction events.
In a 2-month period after the disaster, most of the impacted
community members are still living in some evacuation posts or
temporary shelters. Creating comfortable and secured feelings for
all of the impacted people become our homework. Comfort and
secured feelings should be able to be enjoyed by all community
members who were impacted by the disaster.
ERCB through Pusaka Indonesia is trying to create a service spot
that is secured and comfortable, especially for the children. After
the disaster, there are a lot of children who lose their learning and
playing grounds. There are many damaged schools and force the
children to learn in emergency schools under tents. They also
play in the roads and other dangerous zones, therefore, a children
friendly space (CFS) becomes an alternative place for the children
to play. Some creative games are introduced in order to invite the
children to learn.
As the implementing team on the field, Marjoko from Pusaka
Indonesia Foundation (in Indonesian: YPI) shared that the
most vulnerable group during a disaster is children, and of
course women, elders and difable groups are included in this
category. According to him, the traumatic experience gained
after witnessing a devastated event may cause stress and trauma
that are able to disrupt the children’s physical, social and mental
developments.
In the implementation, ERCB gets support from the local
community. Up to now, ERCB with its CFS program implemented
by YPI has accompanied 631 children living in 7 villages by
involving 25 teacher volunteers and 7 people from the village
government. The CFS established by ERCB are available in
7 villages, they are Kabonga Besar, Loli Saluran, Loli Pesua,
Langaleso, Omu, Tuva and Salua.
“The CFS is a place to mobilize the community participation,”
said Marjoko.
The children survivor who get the service are also the
community’s responsibility, therefore the community should
involve in each process.
“On this program the community’s responsibility presents in a
form of the CFS development,” he added.
“So the main point is how to increase the community
participation in children protection,” said Marjoko.
“The CFS also provides a legal service when it indicates that
there are behaviors that may lead to violence against children,
child exploitation an also children trafficking especially in the
accompanied villages,” he added.
Besides organizing the playing, learning, creating and recreation
activities, YPI with its CFS program also provides Identification,
Documentation, Tracing, Verification and Reunification services
(IDTVR) for children who are separated from their parents/families.
“With this service, it’s expected that we can help make a data on
missing documents during the disaster,” said Marjoko. (mdk)
Children in Loli
Saluran Village
are playing and
learning in a
children friendly
space to prevent
post disaster
trauma. Photo:
Martin Dody/ERCB
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Rony Oagay has travelled a long trip from Wamena Papua to Palu in Central Sulawesi. He has gone through more than a 7-hour flight on 23rd November 2018. As a medical doctor, his soul has been called to become a volunteer post the earthquake, tsunami and liquefaction disasters in Palu, Sigi and Donggala.
Dr. Rony, a native community member of Dani Tribe living
in Baliem Valey, Jayawijaya Highlands, Papua, joins the Kemah
Peduli Foundation to be able to bring his intention into a
realization.
With Kemah Peduli Foundation, Dr. Rony has visited tens
of evacuation places in Palu, Sigi and Donggala. He went to
Bora and Birumalu Villages. He provided health services to the
survivors who were living in the evacuation points. He met a lot
of internally displaced people, especially mothers who suffered
from illness such as diarrhea and high blood pressure.
During his visit Dr. Rony also found out some survivors
whose illness were difficult to be cured. They have suffered
from the illness quite a long time but do not receive immediate
medication. One example is a mother who is staying in an
evacuation point in Bora Village. The lady suffers from cyst that
causes swollen tummy and she is not able to walk.
“It is a pity that we are not able to solve that problem here
because of the limitation of medical equipment and medicine.
We have referred the lady to a hospital,” said Dr. Rony.
Regarding the illness that he frequently found in evacuation
points, Dr. Rony discovered some survivors suffer from acute
respiratory infection and diarrhea. In addition to that the
minimum numbers of bathing and latrine facilities is another
issue that should be put into consideration because this is closely
related with the health status of the community living in an
evacuation point.
According to the doctor who graduated from Medical Faculty,
Cendrawasih University, Jayapura, Papua in 2013, it’s important
that both the central and province governments, especially
the Health Agency to ensure the medicine supplies availability
during a post disaster situation. The medicine supplies are
important for the hospitals, community health centers and health
service volunteers who organize medication services in the
evacuation points.
“We are the health volunteers find difficulties to do our
works because of lack of medicine supplies. Perhaps the Health
Agency is able to help us. Perhaps there is a special mechanism
for volunteers to access medicines they need. It’s difficult for
us when we are providing health services in the field without
medicines. The medicines that should be continuously available
are just common medicines such as, medicines for injuries, flu
and cold, anthelmintic and etc.,” said Dr. Rony.
“It’s impossible for us to bring medicine from Papua. It weighs
a lot,” he joked.
The First Experience Although Dr. Rony has been experienced in providing health
services in the interior areas and difficult to access places in
Papua Island, however, becoming a volunteer in a post disaster
area is his first experience. He discovers a lot of interesting
and memorable experiences during his stay in Palu and its
surrounding.
“We are happy that we can serve friends from other ethnics
in Indonesia who have different language and culture from us,
Papua people. We also learn how to be impartial, never look at
the race, ethnic, religion and background of the people we help
because we come to Palu to sincerely assist the people here, “said
Dr. Rony.
Continued to page 7...
FROM BALIEM TO PALU
Dr. Rony Oagay with a survivor. Picture taken from Kabar Sulteng Bangkit
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It requires a right
space and a right
time to release
the emotion or
hidden feeling.
This statement
was shared by
PERDHAKI Team,
who provides
psychosocial
services, few
days ago during
an informal
conversation with
Kareba Palu Koro.
A quite broad
space and time are
given by the psychosocial team members to the disaster affected
community in Palu, Sigi and Donggala (abbreviation: Pasigala).
Kareba Palu Koro made an appointment with Maria Goretti
Ivoni Utami and Hana Wiji Lestari from PERDHAKI during youth
gathering in Central Sulawesi Christian Church – Effatha (in
Indonesian: GKST Effatha) on Friday night, 30th November.
The theme brought up by the activity was “Meaningless to be
Meaningful”. There were around 20 female and male youths
attended the activity and they were invited to do a relaxation in
the beginning of the activity. They were brought in as if they were
on a beach to feel their existence, their parents’ existence and also
to feel their loneliness when their parents were not around. This
activity tried to explore this kind of feeling. Some participants
started to be touched during this session.
Following the relaxation session, the participants were asked to
do a self-reflection related to what they felt during their loneliness
and meaningless circumstances. In some small groups and
assisted by some facilitators, the Effatha Church youth expressed
what they had held deep inside their hearts so far. It’s not just few
youths who were carried away when they disclosed their feelings
when they felt meaningless or were not appreciated by others and
how they rose to overcome and proved their achievements.
They need to be heard, they need a place to share what they
feel but they are not able to reveal it,” said Ivon. Thomas Aquinus,
who is usually called Nino, from Bina Swadaya and Titik Susana
Ristiyawati from LPTP who helped the session agree with what
Ivon expressed.
“The unique thing is that they trust us, people that they have
just known, to share everything they feel,” said Titik.
“There are many of them who were touched when talking
the things which are related to parents. The parents’ presence is
deemed required,” Nino continued.
According to Florensius, the Palu Presbytery GKST youth
administrator, the method applied in the session was quite
effective.
“The session that should be completed in three days, it was able
to be done within two hours with a good result,” said Florensius.
“The youth who attended the session were able to
communicate any problem that they weren’t able to disclose in
the past,” he added.
“However, we are as listeners, must keep the confidentiality in
order they know that they can trust us. When they trust us, they
will feel comfortable when they share their feeling,” explained
Ivon.
The head of the youth, Nover Lambo, appreciated this service.
“The theme quite touches and it’s able to motivate us. This
event becomes a media to release our hidden feeling that we have
been holding inside our hearts for some time,” he said.
However, Nover felt sorry that the time allocated for the session
was too short. Nevertheless, the PERDHAKI psychosocial team is
willing to allocate time to provide an online consultation service.
“So, anytime they would like to do a consultation, they can do it
by calling the numbers I gave,” said Ivon. (mdk)
Becoming Meaningful
Church youth are
coming together
in Effatha Church
to attend a
psychosocial service
organized by
PERDHAKI. Photo:
Martin Dody/ERCB
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“Rise up Sigi, be Strong Kulawi!” The yell
was echoing in a Multi Purpose Building
which is located in Bolapapu Village,
Kulawi Sub-District, Sigi District when
Rahmat Saleh, the Karsa Institute Director,
or who is known as Oyong, gave a speech
during an event of aid transfer that would
be distributed to 4 villages in Kulawi Sub-
District.
There was an interesting message
communicated by Rahmat to the survivors
who were present in the event.
“We should rise up to become better,”
said Rahmat.
This message aims to make the survivors
in Kulawi to move on immediately from
the downturn after the disaster and to
prepare themselves for better future
and not to continuously depend on the
external aid.
The event was mutually organized by
the ERCB Consortium that consists of
non-government organizations, they are
Pusaka Indonesia, LPTP, Bina Swadaya,
PERDHAKI and the consortium received
extraordinary supports from some local
organizations, i.e. Karsa Institute, Awam
Green and Merah Putih Foundation. This
event aimed to provide aid in the form of
16 tons of rice, water purifiers, bedding
kits, coconut oil, hygiene kits and pipes.
The aid was distributed to survivors in
Bolapapu, Boladangko, Tangkulowi and
Lonca Villages.
The 4 Village Heads from the villages
that received the aid, Kulawi Sub-District
Head, Sector Police Department Head,
Kulawi Military Rayon Commandant
and the Deputy of Sigi District Head
also attended the event. After the ERCB
Focal Point Person, Agung Prasetyo, gave
speech, the Kulawi Sub-District Head,
Roli Bagalatu expressed his appreciation
for the efforts delivered by the local
government who worked in synergy with
some non-government organizations
like ERCB so that Kulawi was able to get
support.
“My tears have been dry. Since 30th of
September we have been working so
hard under the devastating situation and
condition,” said Roli.
“But God never leaves us. The real
evidence of God’s presence is the presence
of government and NGO friends who
are helping eliminate the community
affliction,” he added.
The event was closed by the Deputy
of Sigi District head, Paulina, S.E., M.Si.,
who symbolically handed in the aid to the
local government officers. The aids then
distributed for community members living
in those four villages.
Kareba Palu Koro met the Deputy of Sigi
District Head, Paulina, S.E., M.Si., and she
communicated that the main focus of Sigi
district government in the rehabilitation
and reconstruction stage was constructing
temporary shelters and possibly also
building permanent shelters. The
temporary shelters development would be
prioritized for the survivors whose houses
collapsed like in Jono Oge and Langaleso
Villages.
“The temporary shelter development
does not always apply communal concept”
said Paulina.
“However, we are still waiting for the
result of a research conducted by some
experts that aims to determine the safe
zones where the temporary shelters
should be built,” she added.
When Kareba Palu Koro asked about
the government expectation in going
through the rehabilitation reconstruction
period, Paulina expressed that the district
government, especially in Sigi District,
expected that the non-government
organizations like ERCB was able to
continue provide assistance in that period.
“It’s highly expected the presence
and assistance from non-government
organizations colleagues in order
the rehabilitation and reconstruction
stage runs better,” Paulina closed the
conversation. (mdk)
RISE UP SIGI, BE STRONG KULAWI
The Deputy of Sigi District Head, Paulina,
during the event of aid transfer for Sigi
community. Photo: Martin Dody/ERCB
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From page 1...Heavy equipment has been mobilized by Bina Warga to remove the piles of wood bars under the bridge that block the water current
and cause water to overflow to community settlement. According to Darfian (50), one of the Bina Marga Central Sulawesi Province staff,
met in the location, they have operated 3 heavy equipment to overcome the situation and to normalize the Salua River.
“The evacuation process, security and normalization are directly led by the Deputy of Sector Policy Head, IPDA Deny Senewe, who
has been monitoring the situation since last night,” Florensisus from Karsa Institute reported.
According to IPDA Deny Senewe there were no any casualties during the event. “My staff members are still looking for information
and calculating the loss suffered by the community, especially who live in Hamlet 3,” said IPDA Deny Senewe.
The bathing, washing and latrine facilities and children friendly space facility built by the ERCB were carried away by the flash flood.
“A unit of bathing, washing and latrine facility that consists of 4 rooms that is located in Hamlet 3, another unit in the local market and
one other unit in RT 02, plus one children friendly space facility, were impacted by the flash flood last night,” said Titik Susana Ristiyawati
from Rural Technology Development Institute (abbreviation in Indonesian: LPTP). (ma/fl/tsr/mdk)
Infographic
on earthquake,
tsunami and
liquefaction
response
distribution in Sigi
District, Central
Sulawesi.
Flash Flood...
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From page 3...The people living in the evacuation points are enthusiastic,
friendly and highly honor Rony. They genuinely happy welcome
any volunteer, even they are more joyful when they find out that
he is a doctor from Papua Island.
Anytime we visit an evacuation point in each village, we are
warmly welcomed and they serve us some meals. When they are
happy, we are also happy. That’s the reason we are here, to make
them laughing and with us they are able to forget for a moment
the disaster they have gone through.
Regarding the Kemah Peduli Foundation, it’s a foundation that
have volunteers in almost every location in Indonesia. Besides
volunteers from Papua, they also have volunteers from Java, Bali,
Nusa Tenggara, Sumatera, Sulawesi and Kalimantan.
Dr. Rony also expressed his gratefulness to Kemah Peduli
Foundation for giving him the opportunity to work in Palu as a
volunteer up to 15 December 2018, it’s the time he has to return
back to the land of the bird of heaven, Papua.
Dr. Rony shared that his motivation to come to Palu was to help
his Indonesian brothers and sisters who had just experienced
the unexpected condition. Disaster may happen anytime and
anywhere, said Rony who was born in 1986. Post a disaster, it
requires a lot of people to work together, to build, to fix the
damages and especially to heal the post disaster psychological
trauma.
“It may be possible that one day when a disaster hits Papua,
we would need helps and volunteers like us now. We are grateful
that Kemah Peduli Foundation is able to unite us from all around
the country to be able to help our brothers and sisters here,” he
said.
He expects that the Central Sulawesi community, especially
who are living in Palu, Sigi and Donggala always keep good spirits
and rise up to build their homeland.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, sisters and brothers, we come to this
place and let’s together build Palu with enthusiasm. Without
any good spirit from all of you, we are volunteers won’t be
enthusiastic. When you work hard, we are volunteers will work
harder to help you. It’s like a saying in my mother tongue, Dani
language: Yogotak huwuluk motok honorogo – tomorrow should
be better from today,” that’s his expectation. (Firmansyah MS/Internews. Source: Kabar Sulteng Bangkit)
From Baliem...
Photo Story
The community in Hamlet 3, Langaleso Village use the water from a
spring for washing activity. Photo: Martin Dody/ERCB
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ERCB AID DISTRIBUTION IN CENTRAL SULAWESI INFOGRAPHIC
The infographic of ERCB Consortium aid distribution in Palu, Sigi and Donggala (PASIGALA)
– Central Sulawesi up to 9th December 2018. The aid distributed is rice, preserved fish, cooking
oil and also non-food items such as water tanks, waste bins, hygiene kits, family kits, tarpaulin,
pallets and pipes, bathing washing latrine facilities and health & psychosocial services. (mdk)
Kareba Palu Koro is an information dissemination media related to a disaster management in Central Sulawesi that is managed by the Emergency Response Capacity Building Network (ERCB), during the emergency response up to the rehabilitation phase post the earthquake, tsunami and soil liquefaction happened on the last 28th September 2018 in Palu, Sigi and Donggala – Central Sulawesi Province. This biweekly media is funded by SHO and Cordaid.
Editor in Chief: Arfiana Khairunnisa, KARINA Yogyakarta
Contributor: Martin Dody Kumoro, Moh. Arul,Florensius, Titik Susana Ristiyawati (ERCB team)
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