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Indonesia - OCHA Consolidated Situation Report No. 39
24-31 Aug 2001
NATURAL DISASTERS
An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale shook Bengkulu early on Monday. Its epicentre was in the Indian Ocean, some 130 km south of Bengkulu city, at a depth of 74 km. The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said another magnitude 6 temblor struck in the Maluku Sea, between North Maluku and North Sulawesi provinces, on the same day. No casualties were reported in either case.
MALUKU
General Situation
An explosion believed to have been caused by a time bomb killed five people and injured 13 on 27 August. The bomb went off in a food stall on Latumeten Street near the Pattimura University alternative campus opposite the military hospital. Vendors and their customers from both communities have filled the street between the hospital and the campus, as this is one of the most frequented neutral areas in the city. Since the explosion, the market has been closed.
Two other bombs went off in the vicinity of Amans Hotel, which is another neutral area. No one was reported injured in the latter two blasts. M.J. Papilaja, Mayor of Ambon city, said that in order to avoid incidents such as the one on Monday, he would separate the traders from the college students of Pattimura University, by having the traders move to one section of the street (away from the campus).
Ambon Ekspres daily reported that fighting between two villages (Lengluang and Ritabel) in Tanimbar, West Southeast Maluku injured 11 people and led to 3 houses being burned and 40 partially destroyed.
Early morning on 30 August, four people in a public bus were shot, one of them fatally, in Waai village, Ambon Island.
Muslims escorted several Christians to Yos Sudarso (the Muslim controlled main harbour in Ambon) to board a passenger ship heading for Southeast Maluku. The passenger ships are typically considered either Christian or Muslim and it is extremely rare that Ambonese from one religious group make use of the boat considered to belong to the other.
A soldier was reported killed and one policeman and nine civilians injured in a speedboat shooting incident east of Ambon Island on Friday morning. No further details were available.
Assessments
MSF-B is presently undertaking a health and water & sanitation assessment in the Muslim areas of western Seram, which will form the basis of potential future activities.
Food
The Social Welfare Department in Maluku reported that it has handed over 1,743,936 MTs of rice for IDPs in Ambon to the Mayor of Ambon.
ACF has completed its penultimate food and hygienic products distribution in Saparua Island and in Tehoru (Central Seram).
Health
A UNICEF-sponsored workshop for health workers was conducted from 28 to 31 August under the safe motherhood programme. The workers come from Buru and West Southeast Maluku, which are the two Maluku districts that are part of the 40 countrywide benefiting from the UNICEF safe motherhood programme. At present the assessment tools are being prepared and the subsequent assessments should be undertaken during September.
Starting on 31 August, MSF-B will check, update and replenish its emergency stock in the Masohi hospital.
IMC will shortly depart for Buru to finalise assistance arrangements (re-establishing health centre services) following the July/August health assessment mission. IMC will also proceed to areas on Seram for more preliminary health assessments.
Shelter and Relief Items
The report from the OTI-sponsored shelter assessment carried out by Mercy Corps has been finalised and can be requested from Mercy Corps. It covers all the major islands in Maluku except Tanimbar.
Mercy Corps are undertaking missions to Seram to monitor shelter return and NFI distribution projects and also to Banda to pre-monitor NFI project proposals.
Water & Sanitation
Mercy Corps has carried out a water & sanitation training with their local partners and PU (Public Works Department). The training encompassed both technical aspects and community organisation ones.
On 30 August, MSF-B left for central Seram to follow up on previous assessments. The assistance will focus on water & sanitation but also include some NFI (particularly blankets and jerry cans) distribution.
MSF-B reinforced its water project in Pulau Tiga (northwest of Ambon Island).
MSF-B has begun to work on water & sanitation in Wisma Gonzalo (south-eastern outskirts of Ambon city) in cooperation with the Crisis Centre.
Education
USAid has assisted two vocational schools (SMK) in Wayame and in Kebun Cengkeh by donating 500 school uniforms, 500 school bags, general and extracurricular supplies, and electronic equipment.
SC-UK will send an officer to be stationed in Ambon next week. The focus will be on emergency education, child protection and children in arms.
NORTH MALUKU
General Situation
Thousands of demonstrators, from groups supporting and opposing governor-elect Abdul Gafur, rocked Ternate city to welcome the arrival of the joint team consisting of national parliamentarians and officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs. The team is going to investigate the allegation that Gafur has bribed local parliamentarians to elect him governor on 5 July.
IDPs
The North Maluku district office (Satlak) of the Bakornas PBP returned 294 Christian IDPs (110 households) to their homes in Domato village of Jailolo sub-district on Saturday. They left Akediri camp B of Jailolo (46 households/170 IDPs), Kao (32 households/64 IDPs), and Tobelo (32 households/60 IDPs) sub-districts.
WVI roofing programme for 4,000 households has been approved by the Netherlands.
Assessment and monitoring
WFP performed a joint assessment mission with GoI counterparts to North Maluku during the week of 20 - 25 August. The mission concludes that the security situation appears calm and stable. There is evidence of significant and increasing return of IDPs to most locations. The provincial government reversed an earlier statement that WFP rice was no longer needed in the province. It now says that food assistance is needed from WFP, particularly for resettlement. However, WFP's implementing partners, AcF and WVI, consider food needs to be limited. Assistance for reconstruction of houses is acknowledged by the local government to be the most important need. Government food distribution takes place but is erratic, unsystematic and relatively untargeted. Food rations and side dish money are reduced in order to cover also needs of non-IDPs as a measure to avoid social jealousy. The coordination arrangement between the local Government and NGOs is weak and largely ineffective. Further food assistance from WFP will only be considered if the local government and WFP's implementing partners can identify a significant need and agree on a distribution of responsibility to cover that need.
Health
WHO continued their workshop on Management of Drug Supply and Malaria in cooperation with North Maluku provincial office of the ministry of health.
MDM is preparing a health training to be held on 1 September for nurses, midwives and TBAs (traditional birth attendants).
IMC routine health activity continues in Tobelo, Galela, Kao, Daruba, Posi-Posi Rao, and Bere-Bere. IMC attended 249 patients in Galela, 174 patients in Bere-Bere, and 382 patients in Tobelo sub-districts. Most frequently reported health problems included upper respiratory infection, malaria and mialgia. IMC doctors also continue undertaking their mobile clinic health activities in Galela and Tobelo sub-districts. Posyandu activity attended 51 children under five and provided them with vitamin A in Tobelo sub-district.
Water and Sanitation
MDM undertook mosquito spray in Bobaneigo village of Jailolo sub-district.
Food security
ACF reported that it provided 1,302 households (5,061 IDPs) with 50,610 kg of rice, 2,024 kg sugar, 5,061 ltr of oil, 7,592 kg of mung beans, and 633 kg of salt in 27 villages during their distribution programme 12 to 15 August.
Non-food items
ACF distributed support utilities including 5,208 pcs of mosquito coil, 10,122 & 5,061 pcs of body and laundry soap in Gane Timur sub-district.
Education
The North Maluku District Head, Gahral Syah, called on all elementary to high school teachers currently in displacement in Bitung or Manado to return. He admitted that most schools in the district did not have enough teachers.
This report and all previous ones can be found on OCHA's website at www.reliefweb.int
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