Terlampir adalah lanjutan dari
laporan perjalanan yang telah ditulis secara formal.
Lesson learned lain yang juga
dapat saya katakan disini antara lain adalah:
Bagaimana kami harus survive
dengan budget seadanya (tidak seperti petugas formal/ pejabat)
Bagaimana cara berinteraksi
dengan penduduk setempat yang tampak apatis
Bagaimana menangani penghadang di
jalan
Dari
hal-hel tersebut saya berkeyakinan bahwa hanya dengan memberdayakan warga Aceh,
maka Aceh dapat terbangun kembali. Tanpa memberdayakan mereka saya kira Aceh
tetap akan menjadi ajang exploitasi.
Salam
DD
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Stabilization of Impacted Areas and Victims
Camps
With a capacity to evacuate only
2,000 corpses per day, there are tens of thousands of corpse rotting under
collapsed structures, jammed under the bridges and in the river or buried in one
meter thick tsunami mud inside houses and public buildings, as well as in other
difficult to reach areas. The
potential spread of viral diseases from decaying corpses is high. Within two weeks time after the tsunami,
there should be a policy to isolate the impacted areas in Banda Aceh and
Pidie. Only clean up personnel
should be allowed to enter the disaster areas with proper outfits. The Department of Health, Department of
Public Works and Ministry of Environment would need to ensure that the impacted
areas would have working sewerage.
It is highly important to eliminate the pockets of still water which
would have been easily contaminated by rotten corpse and other decaying organic
materials.
The plan to bring the tsunami
victims into several large temporary settlements is the best attempt to provide
basic infrastructure needs for the victims. With the spreading of victim tents for a
few hundreds people each in Banda Aceh, it is difficult to provide them with
medical, food and clean water supplies as well as the provision of education
program for children and the urgently needed sanitation facilities.
Building an international
standard temporary settlement complex for tsunami victims would guarantee basic
relief support for up to a few years.
Site selection would be critical in reducing the impacts of densely
populated settlement areas. The
proposed location for the victim camps would be best located in one of the
tributary rivers and not along the main river, to minimize the contagion effect
of waterborne disease from one camp to another, or to the neighboring settlement
areas.
The Krueng Aceh River has three
tributary rivers in the areas of Janto, Indrapuri and Kemiree. Each would serve as a good location for
high quality temporary settlement areas for tsunami victims. There are many examples of good refugee
camps outside Indonesia and there have been commitment from international donors
to finance the construction of those camps. The Ministry of Environment would need
to be involved in the planning of the temporary settlement compounds so that
they can speed up the process to assess environmental impacts of those compounds
and issue the exception letter as required by the EIA Regulation without
compromising the careful analysis of the potential impacts of pollution and
social conflict emerging from those compounds.
There have been reports, albeit
anecdotal, about the deep level of trauma generated by the earthquake and
tsunami disaster. People were
reported covering their eyes and look to other direction toward in-land when
encountering an ocean view because of their deep fear toward the ocean
waves. Although Banda Aceh has
always been an earthquake prone city, it is only recently that people prefer to
sleep in the open space and started their cars and motorcycles immediately when
minor earthquake occurs even in the middle of the night. People are becoming jittery and easily
panicked if earthquake occurs. A
social marketing campaign communication and individual counseling services would
be needed in the traumatized areas from the earthquake and tsunami disaster.
The coverage of saline areas is
much larger that the areas with damaged buildings. Many rice field and community garden are
in-need of desalination process.
With the extensive saline agriculture lands covering those productive
plots it needs a massive desalination process to rehabilitate the land which
could only be provided by the nature, namely the rainwater. It is important to
ensure that irrigation and sewerage system are working properly so that the
desalination process can proceed naturally when big rains come. Unfortunately, the rainy season will end
in a few months and there might not be sufficient rain waters to wash the saline
agriculture areas
