Dutch text, Nederlandse tekst
Medan Aceh relief project
Former guests of Trijaya asked or they could do something.
The letter below we send to them in return.
The Follow-up reports can be found on this page too.
January February March April May
January 4 | January 9 | January 12 | January 15 |
January 20 | January 22 |January 29
PRIVATE RELIEF PROJECT FOR THE VICTIMS IN ACEH THROUGH TRI JAYA TOUR AND TRAVEL
As everybody knows a humanitarian disaster has occurred in the province of Aceh whereby more than 40.000 human beings have perished. The hospitals of Medan are full with wounded. From the air force base in Medan the relief supplies are flown to Banda Aceh. In the past days we received very many E mails from the Netherlands in which it is requested how one can help. Yesterday we have been to the air force base for bringing second hand clothing and to gather information. The hangar where the relief goods were stored is protuberant by congestion of boxes of clothing and foodstuffs. A problem with such large scale relief actions is the distribution. And in cases in which money is collected the question arises whether this will arrive in the proper place.In the event we can collect money there are various options for making a good use. A good possibility is via the Indonesian quality paper Kompas that takes care of distribution in Aceh. A second possibility is to give donations via a group of lawyers in which a befriended lawyer is active and has a number of personal contacts in Aceh. Also we can give donations via the catholic mission known to be reliable. Another possibility is to go to the hospitals in Medan and to enquire there about the most urgent needs. Finally we are thinking of despatch of goods via three students who we have met yesterday on the air force base. It are Julia Novrita, Said Munirridin and Sandra Nahdar, a part time journalist for the Australian News. Julia and Said themselves come from Aceh but study in Jakarta. Said Munirridin has lost three members of the family. They want to go together the three of them to Banda Aceh wanting to help as volunteers. They want to see on the spot what the most urgent needs are. However they had no sponsors yet for their relief action. They made a good impression on us all three. We have agreed with them that we would try to collect money from the Netherlands, therewith to buy relief goods in Medan and to despatch to Banda Aceh. They shall distribute it personally. They will inform us by E mail. Should we send goods to these students we shall go to Banda Aceh ourselves for control.
Our question is now: Do you wish to donate for this private relief project?
Donations you can remit to my bank account in the Netherlands
66.98.03.669 in the name of D.A.Buiskool, Grijpskerk, Netherlands,
mentioning relief project Aceh.
We shall put all reports about the progress of the relief action
and expenditure of the money on this website.
Should you have friends or acquaintances who wish to donate as well
would you in that case pass this letter on to them?
We hope that you wish to support this action.
Diana Pardamean
Dirk Aedsge Buiskool
www.trijaya-travel.com
Medan, 31 December 2004
Reports:
Hosana school
Hospital Tembaco Deli
11.200 rupiah is 1 Euro
Report 29 January
Suriaty
On January 24 we visited Suriaty, 27 years old.
She lost her husband and little son age 2 years.
Her son she kept in her arms during the tsunami but could not keep him strong enough, after which the boy was swooped away by the floods.
Man and son has not been found.
In Banda Aceh they had a trade in old iron.
We offered her to follow a course as that she can make some money again
and to have a occupation to divert her thoughts a little bit form the tragedy
She has 8 brothers and sisters, from them 4 died.
Their parents died some time age already.
We gave her on 24 January 200.000 rupiah as pocket money
and on 28 January 3 million rupiah for a hairdresser/stylist course of 3 month
and also 500.000 rupiah for transport costs.
In total we gave her 3,7 million rupiah.
See picture Suriaty.
On 26 January we went to the Christian Hosana school where 82 Chinese children
from Aceh go to school.
Many of these children have lost a parent, some even both parents.
This school is nearby the refugee coordination center in the Jalan Metal.
In this neighbourhood live thousands of Chinese refugees with families.
The Hosana school is a Christian school, not a government-school.
Victims of the tsunami on a governementschool do not have to pay school-fees.
Chinese don't want to go to government-schools.
This is the result of the discrimination politics against Chinese during the Soeharto period.
Then almost no Chinese were admitted on government institutions, schools, universities,
etc.
Because the Chinese go to private schools this means for Chinese tsunami victims
that they need to pay some school-fees.
Private schools get hardly any government money in Indonesia.
From the school fee the teacher must be paid and the maintenance of the school has to be paid.
The school fee on the Hosana school is 70.000 rupiah per pupil per month.
The board of the school offers to lower this for the tsunami victims till 50.000 rupiah
per month.
Besides that the children need to wear a school uniform,
this is mandatory in all Indonesia.
Uniforms are very cheap but for people who have nothing it is expensive.
We paid for a period of 5 month halve of the schoolfee and also school uniforms
for 82 children ad circa 21 million Rupiah.
See picture handing over money to the headmaster of the Hosana school.
On 28 January we went to the hospital Tembaco Deli in Medan.
Victims of the tsunami in Indonesia get free medical aid
and are operated free of charge.
But it appears that tsunami victims in the hospital Tembaco Deli are not fully sponsored.
There are 17 hospitals in Medan.
Many victims are already operated on in Aceh by medical teams from all over the world,
the additional treatment take place in Medan.
For materials for follow-up operation there is not always money available.
We have bought for the victims mr. Lukman and mrs. Rosida stainless steel pins
(broad plate en narrow plate) for inside the knee and ankle joints.
These pins have been handed over in the mean time and will be placed next week.
Beside that we will acquire artificial legs for 3 persons.
There are in total 9 victims of the tsunami in this hospital,
3 with amputated legs and 2 candidates for a stainless steel pin.
Besides them there were victims with broken legs who are already operated and are still in the hospital
for recovery.
We have give each of the 9 victims 100.000 rupiah as pocket money and also crackers with bread and chocolate.
Further we have given 200.000 rupiah to a boy with his father,
the mother did die by the tsunami.
The boy was kept in the hospital already and recovered in the mean time.
Because they had no money for the journey back to Banda Aceh we paid for them this expenses
and also some pocket money.
See picture delivering the pin.
Report January 22
January 21
Meeting with mrs Hasibuan and mrs. Nasution founders of the Islamic school Yayasan Tarbiyari Islamiyah Al. Mushthfawiyah in Medan.
On this school are 4 children from Aceh, victims of the tsunami.
Of these children three have lost their mother.
Their father is a fisherman, he lost his boat and has no income.
For these 3 children we paid for a period of half a year: clothing ,
cost of living and food ad 650.000 rupiah per child.
Total 1.950.000 rupiah.
This money we have given to mrs. Nasution who takes care of the children.
Further we have given the father also an amount ad 100.000 rupiah for housekeeping money.
It concerns the children Sidratunnur (10), Reza Aziz (8), Okta Maulijal (5),
their mother has died.
The fourth child Yogie Syahputra (7) has both parent alive and his father has an income in Banda Aceh,
but he lost his house.
The father of the fourth child we gave also 100.000 rupiah for housekeeping money.
Because he has an income we did not support him further financially
(see picture mrs. Nasution)
In the morning came to us mrs. Darlina from Lhok Nga, Aceh.
She is a widow, her husband died in July 2004.
Because of the tsunami she lost 3 children, age 18, 19 and 20 year.
We did not dare to ask the names of the children, it was so sad.
Two daughters of 12 and 18 year could hold themselves to a tree and survived the tsunami.
This way mrs. Darlina could save herself too.
In Lhok Nga mrs. Darlina got an income in selling baked banana and tempe (soja cookies).
We gave her an amount ad 1.700.000 rupiah to buy a cart with a stove to be able again to sell baked banana and tempe.
Further we gave her 300.000 rupiah for daily housekeeping money.
Mrs. Darlina and her 2 daughters live at the moment with her sister in Binjai, circa 20 km. distance from Medan. The daughter age 12 is still in the hospital
She want to go back to Lhok Nga. (picture mrs. Darlina) General
9.200 rupiah is 1 Dollar or 11.200 rupiah is 1 Euro.
We meet the victims of the tsunami by different ways.
For example through a refugees camp, through the Catholic church and through acquaintances who know that there are victims from Aceh in their neighbourhood.
After that we go to these people or they come to us.
We always talk with the victims before we give an amount of money.
Report January 20
January 17
Fam. Oei
Visit to the Chinese family Oei which we did visit earlier on January 7. We then paid the third semester for the education of the daughter. This family seems to a little bit across the stress. But they have no means of income. The father was vendor in Banda Aceh and lost his little shop. On januari 14 they went back to Banda Aceh, their house was demolished and robbed. They lost everything. They don't want to go back to Banda Aceh. We offered to buy a cart-shop for the father as that he will be able to sell bamie again, now in Medan. Here fore also a stand has to be hired. They can live for the moment in the house of a family member in Medan. The price of a cart for selling bamie is about 2,5 million rupiah. A place for he stand must be found yet. See picture Chinese family from Aceh.
January 18
Diabetes test
For the medical post of the refugee camp in Jalan Metal we bought again 50 strips for the diabetes test + 100 lancets for pricking. Total price 350.000 rupiah January 18
Grandmother Ibu Nyak Tjut
We talked again to the grandmother Ibu Nyak Tjut we visited on januari 7 and who is left over solely with her granddaughter. We promised her to pay for a term of 6 month a amount ad 700.000 rupiah pro month for costs of living for here and her granddaughter and also for the kiddy garten. On January 18 we gave her 200.000 rupiah. Before we did give her already 500.000 rupiah. The grandmother we teacher at a primary school in Banda Aceh and gets a retirement pension from that. Which she does not get at the moment because of the chaos and bureaucratic problems in Aceh. When she gets her pension again we stop with our help. See photo family in Jl.Amalluhur January 18
Husriadi
Visit to the Malahayati hospital in Medan where we delivered two crutches to Husriadi, a boy 21 years old, from Banda Aceh. His left foot is damaged. Cost of the crutches 160.000 rupiah. See photo Husriadi. 19 januari Lusiana Tjhia
Meeting with Lusiana Tjhia from Banda Aceh. She is 22 years old and lost both here parents and brothers. The body of her father has been found, here mother and brothers not. She stays now with her uncle and aunt and grandmother in Medan. Here family is very poor and has no money for here education. Lusiana is traumatized and depressed. We offered to pay her study for a better future. First for a period of a year. After that we see again. She shall give us a message which study she will follow. On the picture Lusiana with here uncle and aunt and grandmother. 20 Januari
Fam. Laurensius
Meeting with family Laurensius from Banda Aceh who lost everything, the family survived the disaster by luck. They have a stone house in Aceh that not has been flooded away while all the stone house of the neighbours were demolished. As by a miracle there house was staying upright. The fled with their 4 children on the roof and sat their for 5 hours, while the dead bodies flooded through the street. Also on the ground floor of their house a dead body drifted inside. The family consists of 4 grownups and 4 children. The man had a shop in spare parts for cars. The wife is assistant pharmacist and wants to look for a job in Medan. They don't want to go back to Banda Aceh. Last week the went to Banda Aceh. and their entire house appeared to be clear out and robbed. On the address where they live now, they can stay for a while, but it is to far from school for the children and that brings additional transport costs. They ask for help for hiring a house nearer to the school, the house can be hired for the half the price because
because they are victims of the Aceh disaster
In the mean time we paid the house rent for a period of one year for them ad 5 million rupiah.
Address Jl. Semeru 33 A - Medan. See photo mrs. Laurensius.
Fam. Laurensius
Johannes Laurensius (husband)
Erma Ria Lina Laurensius - Saragih (wife)
Adriaan 1st class secondary school, age 13
Ariella 6th class primary school, age 12
Millionsen 5th class primary school age 10
Aiwin 1st class primary school, age 6
Rosmalina Sinaga (grandmother)
Meliana (cousin of mrs. Laurensius)
Lusiana Tjhia
Jl. Aneuk Galong 21
Kp. Mulia Banda Aceh 23123
Born 19 November 1983
Father: Tjhia Lioe Min (dead)
Mother: Mariana (lost)
Brothers : Chandra (lost)
Charlie (lost)
Report januari 15 2005
This morning we had a meeting with pastor James Bharataputra. He is the coordinator of the Catholic church in Medan for aid to the victims from Aceh. We work together with this pastor for direct aid to suffering families. Pastor James Bharataputra brought with him a female student from Meulaboh, who is studying in Jogyakarta. Theresia Tan her parents and sisters died during the disaster. Only her elder brother survived the disaster. Theresia was on the second Christmas day in Yogyakarta. Because her parents died financing for her study has gone. For Theresia Tan we paid the study fee and the house rent for one year ad 255 dollar (3 million rupiah). This money we have given her in already. She can finish her study in one year and a half. If she has finished the study she can apply for and try to find a job.
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Theresia Tan
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Address: Jln. Krasak GK II/12 kotabaru Yogyakarta
Student at the Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta,
Department International Relations. Sixth semester
Her family lived in
Jln. T. Umar No. 27 Meulaboh (houses demolished)
Father : Paulus Tan (lost)
Mother : Maria Tan (lost)
Sister : July Florencia Tan (lost)
Elder brother : Joni Tan survived. Works in a shop named Gunung Mas in Meulaboh
Report januari 12 2005
This day we went to an address in the Jalan Beruang in Medan where refugees families from Aceh live.
The first family has lost all material goods, but has lost nobody in person.
The second family consists out of one person, it is the sad story of a man age 31, who survived
the disaster, but lost his wife and two children. His parents ( the third family)
are alive and live also in the house. In fact everyone is related.
They stay in the house of a family member in Medan.
We did give 500.000 rupiah to each family for daily expenditures.
We bought also school uniforms, shoes and school bags for the children and also for
the little son of the household maid.
Further we bought of medical materials 50 test Accuchek (refill) for the diabetes testing and also 50 lancets for these tests. This diabetes test is for a refugees camp in the Jalan Metal in Medan. Besides that we bought a tube bioplacon (against lying wounds) for a girl age 15, who lost her parents and lies in the Adam Malik hospital because of a leg amputation We promised this girl to buy her an artificial leg. Also we bought a thermos can for this girl.
Expenditure on January 12:
Donations daily expenditures to 3 families ad 1.500.000,-
School uniforms, shoes, school bags for 5 children from above mentioned families ad 700.000 rupiah
Refill accu chek (50 capsules) ad 250.000 rupiah
Lancet pricks 50 pieces ad 50.000 rupiah
Tube bioplacon 20.000 rupiah
Thermos can ad 23.000 rupiah
1 dollar is circa 12.000 Indonesian rupiah.
So far the report of January 12 2005.
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Families in Jalan Beruang, Medan, tel. 061-4521829
I. Name Status Age Profession
- 1. Mahdi husband 42 Driver
- 2. Novida Miannora wife 38 pns (civil servant)
- 3. Yuliadi Noviza daughter 12 School (SMP) (secondary school)
- 4. Doni Satria Furgan son 11 School (SD) VI (primary school)
- 5. Dona Nadia daughter 9 School (SD) IV (primary school)
- 6. Dino Aditya son 7 School (SD) II (primary school)
- 7. Nuradnin grandfather 65 Pension
House is demolished by the tsunami
II.Name Status Age Profession
- 1. Azmanto father 31 pegawai negeri sipil (PNS) (civil servant)
- 2. Desi Wife 30 Ibu rumah tangga (housewife)(lost)
- 3. Bela daughter 5 (hilang) (lost)
- 4. Fahri son 3 (hilang) (lost)
House demolished
III.Name Status Age Profession
- 1. Azwar bey husband 60 Pension
- 2. Kartini wife 55 Ibu rumah tangga (housewife)
IV. Junaidi from Bedage (Aceh) 12 years old
- School : (SD) III (primary school)
- Anak pembantu (son of the domestic helper)
Report January 9 2005
Report Relief project Tri Jaya Tour & Travel for victims from Aceh
On Monday January 3 we had a appointment at the Catholic church in the Jalan Pemuda with mrs. Suani from the Lions club Medan. She participates in the relief action for refugees from Aceh At the church is made a distribution centre for aid goods. Parcels with food and clothing were wrapped up for hospitals and for refugees camps in Medan and also transports with aid goods were organized to Aceh. Here we met mr. Krishnamurti from Jakarta who took the coordination of the project and who told us what was needed most. Mr. Krishnamurti and his team have much experience with aid for water overfloodings which happens almost yearly in certain parts of Jakarta After that we went to a refugee camp in the Jalan Metal (Metal street) were 6000 refugees from Banda Aceh and surroundings have been brought together. also Chinese refugees live with Chinese families dispersed over this neighbourhood. There was a medical team which examined the refugees. On our request what was most needed they told us there was no apparatus for testing blood-sugar levels for diabetes patients That apparatus we bought for them and handed over to the coordinating doctor the same afternoon. Further material needs were not present in this camp because already many donation were given by the Chinese community in Medan.
On January 4 and 5 we bought the products which were needed, as mentioned in the lists below. and handed them over to mr. Krishnamurti. The good are transported to Singkil on the South-west-coast from the province Aceh. Other goods have been sent in the mean time now already to Lhokseumawe and Banda Aceh. At arrival of these goods, there is signed for each parcel for prevention of corruption.
On January 7 we visited two addresses in Medan with refugees from Aceh. On the first address there were 3 families, of whom many lost family-members. There was a grandmother who survived the disaster with one granddaughter. The granddaughter from age 4 passed the night before the disaster with here grandmother in a higher situated house and was saved by that. her parents, brothers and sisters are all missing. The grandmother did not want to return to Aceh. In the house were the live now they cannot stay too. The grandmother we did give 500.000 rupiah (about 50 dollar) for first necessities for a period of 1 month. This money is meant for all persons in the house, so for 3 families Further we offered the grandmother to pay the rent for a house in Medan for a period of one year. We have to find a house yet. Bedsides that we will pay the cost for the kiddy garten for the granddaughter. To rent a house in that neighbourhood in Medan cost about 350 dollar a year.
The second family we visited has come totally penniless and destitute from Aceh and lives with a family in Medan. Of this family everyone survived the disaster. But they haven no money for schooling of their 4 children The youngest 3 children are going to follow education on a Methodist school in Medan. This school asks no school fee from victims of the disaster We paid the school fee for the second semester for the oldest daughter who follows a higher education for management. Otherwise she had to stop here education. Further we paid the transport costs for the other children till January 31 2005. After that date, we will visit them again to see how the situation is. The family told us how they survived the Tsunami. Interesting detail is that a shark, length 1.5 meter was flooded into their house.
Next week we will buy more first necessities and send by the catholic church to Aceh . Besides that we aim at giving structural aid for refugees in Medan We think especially of financing schooling for orphans and children of poor families We must prevent that a lost generation will form, because these children would not be able go to school anymore.
In the mean time we have received more than 6000 dollar in donations. Of these we did spend up till now 7 million rupiah (circa 583 dollar) in aid.
Expenditures:
Financial aid to above mentioned families.
Apparatus for testing on blood sugar levels in cases of diabetes named: "Accu Chek"
Two deliverance with goods by means of the Catholic church that have been send to
Singkil, Lhokseumawe en Banda Aceh in Aceh.
Report up till now of the relief action of Tri Jaya Tour & Travel.
Dirk Aedsge Buiskool
Appendix
Sumbangan Dari Donatur Belanda Untuk Korban Gempa dan Tsunami
Melalui Posko Keuskupan Agung Medan Jl. Pemuda no. 1 - Medan
(Donations from the Netherlands for victims of the earthquake and tsunami by the coordination post of
the bisshop in Medan, Jalan Pemuda no. 1)
- Deterjen B-29 (wash powder) 52 kotak (parcels)
- Biskuit Milna 16 kotak
- Biskuit Unibis 54 bungkus (packets)
- Gaga Tuna (sardientjes) 60 kaleng (can)
- Gelas Plastik (plastic mugs) 51 buah (pieces)
- Shampoo Rejoice 480 sachet
- Kotak Sabun (soapboxes) 54 buah (pieces)
- Pepsodent (toothpaste) 60 buah
- Sabun Nuvo (soap) 60 buah
- Sikat Gigi (toothbrush) 60 buah
- Salonpas (plasters) 50 buah
- Minyak Kayu Putih (eucalyptus ointment) 48 botol kecil (small bottles)
- Afitson (eucalyptus balsam) 48 buah
Medan, 4 January 2004
Penyumbang, Penerima,
(donator) (receiver)
Dirk A. Buiskool Krishna MurtiSumbangan Dari Donatur Belanda Untuk Korban Gempa dan Tsunami
Melalui Posko Keuskupan Agung Medan Jl. Pemuda no. 1 - Medan
(Donations from the Netherlands for victims of the earthquake and tsunami by the coordination post of the bisshop in Medan, Jalan Pemuda no. 1) - So klin bubuk (wash powder) 216 bungkus (parcels)
- Biskuit Unibis 108 bungkus
- Shampoo Rejoice 1920 sachet
- Pepsodent 204 buah (pieces)
- Sabun Nuvo 204 buah
- Sikat Gigi 204 buah
- Air Mineral Cup (mineral water) 2400 cup
Keluarga yang mengungsi di rumah pak Arbi, Jl.Amalluhur Gg.Assalam 81-E , Dwikora Medan, Tel. 08126495115
(3 Indonesian families living in the house of mr. Arbi in Medan)
Ibu Nyak Tjut Age : 67 thn,(nenek) (grandmother)
Address : Banda Aceh, Jl.Al Huda 56 A Laksana Banda Aceh.
Inez Surya Age : 4 thn,(cucu), keluarga/orang tua dan kakak-kakaknya hilang. (sole survivor)
Netti Darmi Age : 38 thn,(anak kandung) (daughter)
M. Darwin Syahputara Age : 27 thn,(anak kandung) (son)
Darman Syahputra Age : 33 thn,(anak kandung)
Darlian Syahputra Age : 31 thn,(anak kandung)
Yuli Age : 25 thn,(saudara)
Keluarga Zurrahman (5 people) Address :Jl. T. Diblang Anggrek Lampulo Banda Aceh
Keluarga Agusri Arsyad (5 people) Address : Jl. T. Umar Setui Banda Aceh
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Second family (Chinese family)
Address : SM Yamin No.58 Banda Aceh (0651 33473)
Mr : Oei Thien Pao Age : 55
Mrs : Lie A Siao Age : 53
Farina Methodist, SMU II Age : 12
Hendra Methodist, SMU I Age :15
Sri wahyuni K. Kudus, SD IVA Age : 10
Farida IBBI,Pepaya Semester Age: 18
Medan 4 January 2005
Below a report of what we did up till now.
Yesterday we went to a refugees camp in Medan
and asked for direct needs.
In this camp are housed 6000 people.
The camp is reasonable well organized
They asked us to buy an apparatus for testing blood-sugar levels for diabetes
this we bought and we delivered it yesterday afternoon.
Today we shall buy clothing and daily needs for refugees in
a hospital. The distribution goes by the catholic church
and the Lions service club organisation. I made photos of the distribution center
and also a photo of the test apparatus for diabetes
We intend first to give concrete help, which we can deliver personally
as that it reaches the right place for sure.
Further we plan to finance schooling for orphans
so that they can get education in Medan.
The duration of the schooling project will last a year minimum,
perhaps longer. So we think especially about concrete long term projects
that we can control personally.
In Banda Aceh are already many goods, medicines, food and clothing,
therefore we concentrate ourselves now on the refugees in Medan.
We keep you informed about the development of the project
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