Reports

Nethy Dharma Somba The Office of Retail and Financial Services for Area XI in Maluku and Papua started the first-stage distribution of the temporary direct cash assistance (BLSM) in Papua, on Wednesday. “For the first stage, Rp 130…

JAKARTA,Nov.8 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday announced 10-million- yuan aid in cash to disaster-devastated Indonesia. "To help Indonesia with disaster relief and reconstruction, China decided to offer 10-million-yuan humanitarian aid in cash to Indonesia," top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo said…

YANGON, Nov 05, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Myanmar government has donated a cash aid of 50,000 U.S. dollars each to the governments of Indonesia and the Philippines, and 30,000 dollars to the government of Laos for natural…

Banten Governor Ratu Atut Choisiah on Friday afternoon said the government would distribute between Rp 5 million (US$ 416) and Rp 30 million in cash aid to each family whose homes were damaged after the collapsing of the Situ…

SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Aid agencies have pledged cash and rushed teams to assess damage and help the injured after a major earthquake and a series of powerful aftershocks shook Indonesia's Sumatra island. U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services said it has…

Shelter responses after disasters have tended to focus on providing temporary shelter in camps, and then assisting in the rebuilding of permanent housing. Predominantly, this support is given in the form of inkind aid: governments or aid agencies supply…

Blontank Poer, The Jakarta Post, Klaten Around 2,500 people from three earthquake-hit Central Java districts staged an angry protest Monday to demand the local government pay them living allowances and reconstruction aid. In a noisy demonstration outside Klaten Regent Sunarna's office,…

By Michael Perry YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, June 5 (Reuters) - Children returned to school for final exams across Indonesia's earthquake-stricken Java island on Monday as survivors, frustrated by a lack of aid, tried to rebuild homes with scraps of wood and…

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, May 30, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- At least 5,427 people have died in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, which hit Indonesia's Java island on Saturday, while the international community has pledged 47.7 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid,…

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, May 29, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A number of countries have pledged aid totaling 47.7 million U.S. dollars for emergency response to Indonesia's earthquake-stricken Java island, a government spokesman said Monday evening. "The figure continues to rise, "…