Jesuit Refugee Service

No. 01, April 2005

Contents I Want to be a Pilot I Want to be a Pilot waves, attracted our atten- Page 1 tion. Although his wound is painful, he just made a JRS Serves the small grin when a nurse Tsunami Survivors opened the bandage of the Page 1 wound to clean it. He then When I was sick... continued to play with his Page 2 toy. Both his eyes gleamed when he played with the Tapaktuan in Ruins plane investigating every Page 3 part of it. He said in - Boby and his plane. nese, “When I become a Miss Chilly-Sweet pilot, both of you (pointing Page 4 “I want to be able to his eyes while staring at his us) may fly with me.” I said play again, to run back and plane in his hand. Boby, to him, “Recover soon, Bo- JRS’s Brief Mission to Nias forth following my plane” whose groin and genital by. We will be your passe- Page 4 was perhaps what the were injured by a beam of ngers...”‰Nia little kid wanted to say with wood in the giant tsunami JRS Serves the Tsunami Survivors

The earthquake and tsunami di- cational materials), saster is horrible. More than 200,000 empowerment (se- lives were lost and 450,000 refugees wing group, fish in- are scattered in tents, barracks, pu- dustry, and farming), blic facilities, and relatives’ houses. trauma healing, hou- The worst destroyed areas are Banda sing, emergency logis- Aceh, Lamno, Calang, Teunom, Meu- tics (foods, drinking laboh, Nagan Raya, Pulo Aceh, and water, clothes, food Lhokseumawe. The destruction is supplements for ba- unbelievable. Furthermore, if you bies and children, etc.), hear the stories of the victims, for body bags, health care example, a taxi driver who lost his and humanitarian wife and children, you fear loosing JRS supplied logistics in Aceh. protection. For hous- those whom you love. ing, JRS works with JRS Indonesia works in the areas Mr. Philipus Yusenda Arie Perdana. ATMI (Akademi Teknik Mesin Indonesia = where our assistance is needed the Aceh Area 1 is coordinated by JRS Academy of Technical and Mechanical most, and where there a no or few office in . It serves the Industry and Vocational School) to other organizations. Until now JRS Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) provide knock-down houses for the has identified several areas of inter- from three areas, namelyAceh Besar IDPs. Since the price to rent houses in vention organized into two central (Krueng Raya, Pulo Aceh, Jantho, Aceh has increased by the influx of coordination offices, namely, Aceh Lamrabo) and Aceh Jaya (Lamsenia foreign aid agencies, JRS has also built Area 1 and Aceh Area 2. Both are un- and Lamno). JRS assists the survi- two knock down houses for staff to der the supervision of Project Director vors in education (providing edu- show an example that NGOs can have

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from Malaysia, and pro- directed by Fr. Baskara SJ (funds from vides logistic support. In various institution groups are sent East Aceh, JRS gives through JRS in USA), Fr. Wibowo SJ logistics, educational ma- and Fr. Ruky SJ, several individuals terials, and trauma heal- via Fr. Kieser SJ and Fr. Franz Magnis ing. In and Suseno SJ, some French donors via Fr. Nagan Raya, JRS has Setyowibowo SJ, and also the SVD promoted empowerment, Newspaper Bertiras. JRS extends and provide housing and gratitude to all friends who have educational materials for helped the fundrising for JRS works, dr. Christy (third from left) and 3 volunteers in Lamno. 15,000 children and 77 those whom have mentioned the teachers in cooperation names and those who did not want a house/office that is cheap and with the Association of Islamic Stu- to be mentioned. Furthermore, a strong. The coordinator for Aceh Area dents, Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam sister from the Congregation of Ca- 1 is Bro. Vincent Haryanto SJ. He (HMI). The coordinator of Aceh Area nossian has raised funds as a symbol works with some staff, volunteers, 2 is Ms. Pudji Tursana, who works of gratitude because JRS has helped and medical experts, both Acehnese with some staff and volunteers. She East Timor in the past. Fr. Peter Balleis and others. The Society of Saint Vin- is chosen by the Indonesian Province SJ from Missionprokur Germany has cent a Paulo in cooperation with the of the Society of Jesus to participate also been very helpful because he did Society of Saint Vincent a Paulo send in a meeting of War and Violence in not only give contribution in the supplies, doctors, and nurses. The Rome. The organizers asked specifi- form of money but also the recruit- bishop of Malacca and Johor, who is cally for a female layperson. Further- ment of a medical practitioner and a Jesuit, also sends funds. JRS Singa- more, Pudji has already worked for 3 the fundraising. The foreign donors pore also raises funds in cooperation years in JRS Aceh/Medan. that also helped our works are: Ca- with the Arch-diocese of Singapore To maintain this broad program, ritas Central Austria, Caritas Austra- team. in all planned areas with, JRS Indo- lia, CAFOD Romero, Servitio Dei Ge- To provide intensive services, JRS nesia needs 95 billion rupiahs (about suiti Roma, Caritas French, Trocaire, opened an office in Lamno, being USD 10 millions), based on the British Province Jesuits, SCIAF, Ca- coordinated by Mr. Wawan Probo assessment and dialogue with IDP ritas de Guadalajara Mexico, Bishop Sulistyo. communities over 2 months were of Mallaca-Johor, Canadian Fund, Aceh Area 2 is coordinated from presented. So far, JRS has raised 16,5 Caritas New Zealand, Foundation the JRS office in Medan, and serving billion rupiahs (about USD 1,8 Entreculturas, Laetitia Soldi, Aus- IDPs in three areas, namely, North millions) from donor institutions, tcare, Assistant Treasurer of SJ BSE, /Medan, South Aceh (Tapak- groups, and individuals. Those who CCFD French, UK St. James the Less tuan), East Aceh (Langsa), West Aceh have contributed are: The Parish of and St. Helen, Thomas Wolf and (Meulaboh), and Nagan Raya. In Me- Kotabaru, Jakarta Cathedral, College Margaret Chin-Wolf, St. Ignatius dan, JRS accompanies people whom of Saint Ignatius, Jesuit Provincial of High School, JRS Australia, Jesuit are evacuated to North Sumatra with Indonesia, Kanisius staff, the Catholic Mission Australia, UK Holy Trinity severe illnesses. In South Aceh, JRS community of Gabriel in Berbah, Fr. Church, St. John the Baptist, UK CC cooperates with Yayasan Gampong Bintoro SJ from Indonesian Air Force, Leigh Ly, Green Property, UK St. Hutan Lestari (YGHL), a local NGO, Fr. Bentvelsen SJ, several individuals Georges Rome Catholic Church, to assist more than 10,000 IDPs from (including a friend of Fr. Mardikar- Sophia University, UK Catholic Meulaboh and other areas whom do tono SJ), several Parishes in England Church Chalton on Sea, UK Catholic not receive adequate attention from that are coordinated by Fr. P. Widyar- Church Romford.‰Edi the government. JRS also covers me- so SJ, several communities/indivi- dical needs, sends medical experts duals in the United States that are

When I was Sick...

Visiting sick people in the hospital such a visitation everyday? JRS pays her during a visit to the hospital. may not be among your favorite all the expenses, right? Don’t staff from Patiently, Dewi explained that this is activities. However, that’s what Dewi, YGHL (Yayasan Gampong Hutan a part of JRS’ service. This is the a JRS volunteer in Medan, does Lestari – JRS’ local partner in Tapak- strenght of JRS’ work. JRS knows that everyday. “Why does JRS have to do tuan) do the accompaniment?” I asked financial aid is not enough, but the

2 Refuge No. 01 April 2005 Jesuit Refugee Service Indonesia accompaniment and attention are nately, Boby could not speak Indone- Previously, doctors thought that she also important. “That is what they sian only Acehnese. I believe we would loose her arm since cancer had really need from you, isn’t it?” I kept would have talked more if he could spread. Fortunately, a biopsy showed the words in my heart. speak Indonesian. that radiation and operation might When I passed through the hos- After visiting Boby, we visited save her arm. Visiting her, Dewi en- pital corridor, I saw a thirty year olds Mirdalisma (15 years old) and Yusni- couraged her to become a motivator man sitting down in a wheelchair dar (32-years old). Mirda had a tumor for women in her village as she has and his family around him. From his on her upper left arm. Her condition good understanding of the situation face and the way he sat, you could see was improving. Dewi told me that and things, despite a low level of edu- that he suffered mental damages. Mirda was a clever student. She was cation. Slowly, I heard him uttering unclear the best student in her school in Ta- It must be difficult for a five year words and I saw his eyes brightened paktuan. Before she was referred to old boy to experience an infected when his family sang a Happy Birth- Elizabeth hospital, she had to go to wound. It must also be hard for Mirda day song. I was moved to see the school with a bleeding wound. She if she fails the test and cannot con- expression on his face. The meaning has been at the hospital for months tinue to the next level of school. Lea- of the words “I was sick and ye visited and absent from school, which may ving three small children in a village Me” written below the statue in front ten-hours drive from of the Elizabeth hospital made sense Medan must be a for me. I, then, continued my steps to hard decision for a the children’s ward to visit Boby, a mother like Yusnidar five year-old boy from Bakongan as well. whose groin and genital were da- Therefore, I am maged during the tsunami. Although grateful for today’s I had seen the injuries on photos lesson given to me by before, the feeling of concern was still these strong people. overwhelming. I could not speak They may be just or- seeing the vertical scar from the lower dinary people, and chest to the bottom of the stomach. I they have to bear a could also see that the wound at the burden they cannot bottom part of the stomach was still dr. Andrew treats IDPs and locals in Mata Ie. choose. Not everybo- open. Dewi said that Boby indeed had dy can live with such just completed an operation of taking mean that she will not be able advan- a burden. Until now they are still skin from his stomach to cover the ce to the next level with her peers. keeping hopes up that life will return wound. He also underwent one ope- The next patient is Yusnidar (a 32 to normal. In this matter, financial aid ration, which was unsuccessful. I years old mother from Tapaktuan) is not the sole solution. And this is admired him for not crying. He look- who suffered from a tumor in her what JRS has done: to accompany and ed strong although he still have to right elbow; forcing her to leave her to give words of comfort. Not just endure another operation. Unfortu- three children for hospital treatment. financial aid.‰Nia

Tapaktuan in Ruins

JRS works with YGHL, a local NGO, to serve in Tapaktuan, one of the tsunami-affected towns on the West coast of Aceh, to rebuild the destroyed infrastructures. Although the disaster did not kill any people in the city, it tore down almost all the buildings and public facilities. The loss tallies up to 548 million rupiahs in Trumon Sub-district and 900 million rupiahs in South Kluet Sub-district (data source from SATLAK-the District Disaster Management Committee). In Tapaktuan Sub-district, the destruction covers Sudirman Street in Hilir Neighborhood. Two houses were destroyed owned by Suatril, who lost about 50 million rupiahs and Amrin about 2 million rupiahs. (continued to page 4....) Dewi, a JRS volunteer, and the collapsed bridge in Tapaktuan

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...Tapaktuan in Ruins In South Kluet, the State road in Indra Damai Village In Trumon Sub-district, 10 houses were totally were damaged along 5 km and cracked 20 cm wide. A destroyed, 10 houses were badly damaged, and 2 bridge in Rantau Binuang collapsed. The State road in mosques and musholas were badly damaged. There is Pasie Lembang Village was cut off 15 m wide, and 52 no more port in Tapaktuan and 13 boats are missing. houses were damaged. ‰Pudji

Miss Chilly-Sweet

Santi, a JRS field officer working in prayer, Mak Bit came closer to Santi Meulaboh visited Mak Bit, an old wo- saying, “Thank you…!!! Thank men with one tooth left (it is worse you…!! Thank you!” Every time say- than in the story sung in “Burung Ka- ing thank you, she held and rubbed kak Tua”), who sold betel vine leaves. Santi’s arms. She was not aware that She sells the leaves and bottles of aqua, her hands were still full of chilly a business which grew out of only sauce. So, Santi’s arm was covered 25,000 rupiahs, which was given by a with the chilly sauce as if polished generous person. with yellow cream. Moved by compassion, we plan- Apparently, Mak Bit was so mo- ned to give the poor old women some Meulaboh devastated after Tsunami. ved by the gift that she forgot that her money to increase her investment. It hands were smeared by chilly sauce, was not a loan, as it was not so much. rice and balado fish. Therefore, the following day Santi “You do not need to give me the Santi, who is a sweet girl, then, got visited her again. She was eating ba- money back, Mum!” title as Miss Chilly-Sweet!! lado fish with chilly sauce. After so- Hearing this, an Arabic prayer (The moral is: to give help, you must me talks, Santi gave her the money. immediately sounded from Mak make sure that the beneficiaries’ “How should I pay the money Bith’s, which Santi did not get it (but hands are clean first....).‰Afra back, Ms. Santi?” Mak Bit asked her, of course God understands). It seemed thinking it was a loan. like a grateful prayer. Ending her

JRS’ Brief Mission to Nias To show solidarity with the quake Listyo Pramono, Nia Susanti, and Gunung Sitoli. Dr. Eliz departed survivors in Nias, JRS decided to send Yohanes Demu (from JRS Medan), and on April 4 from Medan with the a small team for a brief mission to dr. Elizabeth Purba (JRS Aceh). The medical team of Harapan Hospital. Nias to identify the needs of logistics team has prepared everything for Pray for them in their new ser- and health. The team members are leaving for Nias this week and built vices.‰Edi Fr. Adrianus Suyadi SJ, Danang networks with contacts in Sibolga

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