CHURCH WORLD SERVICE: EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM
INITIAL EMERGENCY APPEAL:
   INDONESIA - WEST/CENTRAL JAVA EARTHQUAKE/TSUNAMI
23 August 2006


SITUATION: An earthquake of 7.2-magnitude struck off the south-west 
coast of Java on July 17, triggering a tsunami that crashed into the 
southern coast of Indonesia's Java Island. Latest official figures 
indicate that the earthquake left 637 dead, 543 injured and 165 missing.

The earthquake/tsunami affected villages along the coast-line of West 
Java, Central Java and Yogyakarta provinces. Houses, churches, mosques, 
stores, government offices, fishing boats and public facilities were 
destroyed or damaged. While the death toll is lower than that from an 
earlier earthquake in May, widespread damage of houses resulted in a 
large number of traumatized and displaced persons.

(Please note: CWS responded to the earlier earthquake, a separate event, 
under Appeal #6980, issued May 30.)


RESPONSE: This appeal focuses on a three-month program of work by Church 
World Service Indonesia, ending in October. CWS work is part of a 
broader effort by CWS and its partner agencies in Indonesia - all 
members of the Action by Churches Together (ACT) alliance and all 
working together as a coordinated body to respond to this disaster.

CWS is focusing its efforts on a water and sanitation program, in 
cooperation with Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), as well as providing a 
program of psychosocial support.

ACT agencies CWS is working with are YAKKUM (Yayasan Kristen untuk 
Kesehatan Umum - Christian Foundation for Public Health) Emergency Unit 
(YEU) and Yayasan Tanggul Bencana di Indonesia (YTBI), founded by the 
Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI/CCI). YEU is focusing on 
providing health services, supplementary feeding, psychosocial support 
and temporary shelter. YTBI, founded by the Communion of Churches in 
Indonesia (PGI/CCI), is providing psychosocial support, latrines and 
livelihood inputs.


SPECIFICS OF CWS RESPONSE:

A CWS Indonesia emergency team, supported by a water and sanitation 
specialist seconded from partner Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), as well as 
two staff members of International Orthodox Charities (IOCC), travelled 
to the affected area immediately following the earthquake/tidal wave 
July 17. Within a week, the CWS-led emergency assessment team had 
visited 10 displaced persons camps in the affected area.

In addition, CWS Indonesia, with a long relationship with several local 
partners in Central Java, was able to respond quickly to the disaster, 
providing an initial supply of 1,510 bottles of water, 200 family food 
packages, 400 personal hygiene kits and 50 packages of non-food items to 
displaced families residing in camps throughout the affected area.

Now CWS turns its attention to the ongoing response in villages and 
camps in Ciamis District, West Java; Cilacap District, Central Java; and 
Kebumen District, also Central Java. The focus will be on assisting 
7,251 displaced persons in some 2,013 households, particularly with 
water supplies and sanitation facilities and psychosocial support. This 
work builds on the relief assistance already provided to families in 
some of these villages and camps.

CWS water and sanitation work includes working toward providing clean 
water sources for at least eight displaced person camps in the Ciamis 
district of Central Java. Implementation activities include improvement 
of existing water sources; drilling of new wells as required; 
construction of public taps and water tanks; provision of water 
containers; creation or rehabilitation of water points; provision or 
repair of booster pumps to ensure water flows from reservoirs to public 
hydrants; well cleaning; and other related activities.

Sanitation work includes providing public sanitation facilities in at 
least eight displaced persons camps in the Ciamis district of Central 
Java - latrines, septic tanks and drainage will be constructed, repaired 
or improved.

Hygiene promotion will be provided to disaster-affected households in 
these communities to ensure appropriate operation and maintenance of 
water supply and sanitation facilities

Psychosocial support will include providing services to persons living 
in displaced persons camps of the Ciamis district of Central Java, in 
addition to the local population of disaster affected communities. 
Implementation plans provide for:

++ Relief activities for children of school age in by using CWS/TPO 
(Trans-cultural Psychosocial Organisation) concepts of psychosocial 
support for children;

++ Trainings for local caregivers of children and support groups will be 
conducted in target areas;

++ Women's support groups will be developed and/or improved after 
outreach activities.

As well, disaster and risk preparedness training will be provided to 
families in these communities to promote the importance of disaster 
preparedness and mitigation


BUDGET is for $142,750 which includes:  $21,571 for the cost of goods 
distributed during the relief phase; $87,785 for direct assistance in 
the post-relief phase, including the water supply and sanitation work 
and psycho-social program work; $10,000 for transport, storage and 
handling costs of relief supplies and $14,839 in personnel and 
administrative costs.

For further details on the CWS Indonesia response see: 
http://www.cwsindonesia.or.id


Church World Service
Indonesia Earthquake #6982
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515


For further information about disasters to which Church World Service
is responding please visit us online or call the CWS Hotline,
800-297-1516.

CWS Emergency Response Program special contacts: (212) 870-3151

Program Director: donnajderr@churchworldservice.org
Domestic: lreedbrown@churchworldservice.org
International: flumeya@churchworldservice.org

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