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MENTAWAI TSUNAMI
President calls for proper coordination of tsunami victims relocation
NU Online · Jumat, 29 Oktober 2010 | 08:42 WIB
Mentawai, NU Online
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the West Sumatra governor and Mentawai district head to make a good coordination of the relocation of the tsunami victims.
The president also asked the West Sumatra provincial and Mentawai district administration to involve public and religious figures in the relocation of the tsunami victims.<<>br />
According to the head of state, all parties should be involved in the relocation process and therefore good coordination and formulation should be made them.
President Yudhoyono made the statement on Thursday when he visited Mentawai islands which was hit by a deadly tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale on Monday.
On the occasion the president asked the related institutions at provincial and district level to carry out proper emergency response and the relocation of victims to safer areas.
"The West Sumatra governor and Mentawai district head should make a good coordination to make the emergency response and tsunami victims evacuation and relocation a success," President Yudhoyono said.
The president has also provided up to 18 tons of various kinds of basic necessaries to victims of the tsunami in Mentawai, his spokesman, Julian Aldrin Pasha, said.
"It has been confirmed that all of the aid had reached the victims," he said in Padang on Thursday.
He said four tons of the aid were sent by land and sea while the other 14 tons by air.
President Yudhoyono has asked all the relevant institutions to ensure that the aid reached those really in need. He also called for transparency in relief aid distribution.
Aid has also come from various parties.
In an early meeting in Padang, several officials reported a number of foreign countries and international organizations had also expressed their wish to help.
The head of the President`s Working Unit for Development Control and Supervision, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, reported Japan was one of the foreign countries that had offered aid.
He said New Zealand had also expressed its readiness to send various kinds of aid anytime needed. (dar)
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the West Sumatra governor and Mentawai district head to make a good coordination of the relocation of the tsunami victims.
The president also asked the West Sumatra provincial and Mentawai district administration to involve public and religious figures in the relocation of the tsunami victims.<<>br />
According to the head of state, all parties should be involved in the relocation process and therefore good coordination and formulation should be made them.
President Yudhoyono made the statement on Thursday when he visited Mentawai islands which was hit by a deadly tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale on Monday.
On the occasion the president asked the related institutions at provincial and district level to carry out proper emergency response and the relocation of victims to safer areas.
"The West Sumatra governor and Mentawai district head should make a good coordination to make the emergency response and tsunami victims evacuation and relocation a success," President Yudhoyono said.
The president has also provided up to 18 tons of various kinds of basic necessaries to victims of the tsunami in Mentawai, his spokesman, Julian Aldrin Pasha, said.
"It has been confirmed that all of the aid had reached the victims," he said in Padang on Thursday.
He said four tons of the aid were sent by land and sea while the other 14 tons by air.
President Yudhoyono has asked all the relevant institutions to ensure that the aid reached those really in need. He also called for transparency in relief aid distribution.
Aid has also come from various parties.
In an early meeting in Padang, several officials reported a number of foreign countries and international organizations had also expressed their wish to help.
The head of the President`s Working Unit for Development Control and Supervision, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, reported Japan was one of the foreign countries that had offered aid.
He said New Zealand had also expressed its readiness to send various kinds of aid anytime needed. (dar)
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