SHEEP Indonesia Foundation News http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/ Copyright 2009 SHEEP Indonesia Foundation The approval of Law No. 24/2007 on Disaster Management and its other government policies in District level is not enough if both, government and people do not have capacity to understand Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as a mainstreaming in any development plan in Indonesia. Not yet merely as a mainstreaming, many policies of development is overlap with other policies in the context of its implementation. This is the reason why we conducted the workshop entitled "Building Policy Sinergy of Distric...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=24 "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile" said Mr. Rev. Humphrey as the Chair Person of SHEEP Indonesia Foundation on SHEEP Indonesia 5th anniversary. That slogan is originally said by Albert Einstein and then adopted as SHEEP Indonesia's motto in expressing its mandate. Friday, 30 May 2010, SHEEP celebrated its 5th anniversary. There are many dynamic came along its mandate implementation on People's empowerment and advocacy on health, education, sustainable environment and peace. SHEE...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=23 Earth Day becomes a common icon for environment activist in struggling proper space for any creature on the earth. Many activists use the earth day to do various ritual actions in order to pass a message to all government components to look after environment function for sustainable life and human livelihood. Message is not only sufficient to be delivered through mass mobilization (demonstration), press release and press conference. We even need to look back in how we planned those kinds activi...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=22 Skills Lab − stands for skill laboratory, which aiming at to equip medical student with medical competence. Skills Lab offers a learning method with sistematic medical skills which starts from simple method throug the complex ones, which then will be integrated in the end of studying period. Medical Skill containts of three basic aspects of skill, which are: 1) Communication Skill, 2) Physical Check up, and 3) Procedure Skill. Communication Skill consists of how to build emphaty to patient...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=21 Eight days post the earthquake, the District Disaster Response Agency (Satkorlak) of Padang Pariaman recorded 341 dead tolls, 519 people with serious injury, and 529 people with minor injury. Meanwhile, 66.019 houses are heavily damaged, 13.226 with medium damage and 3.503 houses are lightly damage. There are about 65 either government or non-government organizations registered at Satkorlak Padang Pariaman, which implement relief response, including SHEEP. Up to now, many organizations who imple...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=20 Up to Tuesday (6/10) at 10.00 a.m. Data Center of National Disaster Response Agency (BNPB) recorded 704 dead tolls which spread out in following areas: Padang City [327 people], Pariaman City [37 people], Solok [3 people], Padang Pariaman District [292 people], Southern Coastal District [10 people], Agam District [32 people] and West Pasaman [3 people]. Those data were taken from Provincial Disaster Response Agency on October 5 at 08.00 p.m. Meanwhile, 296 people were reported lost from follow...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=19 Up to Monday, October 5, 2009 at 09.00 a.m. West Sumatra Provincial Disaster Response Agency recorded 608 dead tolls, missing person [343 people], serious injury [596 people] and light injury [897 people]. Meanwhile, damage houses are recorded as follow: serious damage [88,272 units], medium damage [43,323 units] and light damage [47.076 units]. The most damage area is located in Padang City and Padang Pariaman District, either building damages or geological damage and landslides due to its sho...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=18 7.6 Richter Scale of Tectonic earthquakes strikes West Sumatra on September 30, 2009 at 05.16 p.m. The quake epicenter was at 57 km Southwest of Pariaman with 71 Km depth. The earthquake causes massive infrastructure damage, injury and death. Last information update tells other 6.8 Richter scale earthquakes also strikes Jambi and Bengkulu with 36 Km depth, on October 1st 2009 at 8.39 a.m. Up to now; there is no fix data on victims and damage toward the earthquake in Jambi and Bengkulu. Provinci...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=17 7.6 Richter Scale of Tectonic earthquakes strikes West Sumatra on September 30, 2009 at 05.16 p.m. The quake epicenter was at 57 km Southwest of Pariaman with 71 Km depth. The earthquake causes massive infrastructure damage, injury and death. Last information update tells other 6.8 Richter scale earthquakes also strikes Jambi and Bengkulu with 36 Km depth, on October 1st 2009 at 8.39 a.m. Up to now, there is no fix data on victims and damage toward the earthquake in ambi and Bengkulu. Meanwhile,...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=16 Responding the earthquake occurred on September 2, 2009 in West Java, SHEEP Indonesia Foundation sent an assessment team on September 4, 2009 to Garut Distict, which then followed by sending the Health Team on September 7, 2009 for doing emergency response at the disaster prone. SHEEP´s Health Team installed a tent for doing health service at IDP´s camp in Leuwi Pari Sub Village, part of Sagara Village and Cibalong Sub District. Leuwi Pari people fled to rubber forest which was chos...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=15 The program entitled Empowerment of Marginal Community and Peace Buildig in East Aceh has started since September 2008 in 12 villages part of 4 sub districts. Those villages are: Kemuning, Teupin Breh, Teupin Pukat, Sinebok Tuha, Seulemak Muda, Kuala Geulumpang, Melidi, Buntul Jambu, Babo, Tampor Paloh, Tampor Boor and Batu Sumbang. Empowerment Programs consist of four aspects, which are empowerment of Health, Education, Environment and Peace building. Health empowerment program implementation...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=14 The 7.3 Richter Scale of Tectonic earthquakes has jolt West Java on September 2, 2009 at 14.55 p.m. The quake epicenter was at 142 km northwest of Tasik Malaya with 30km depth. The quake affected all over Java Island. More than ten thousand buildings damaged, including houses, mosques, churches, offices and shopping centers. National Disaster Response Agency (BNPB) recorded 46 people dead, which spread out in following districts: Cianjur (10 people), Garut (10 people), Tasik Malaya (9 people), ...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=13 Flood that happened on December 23, 2006 was kind of Tsunami for the people who were living in Simpang Jernih Sub District. The flood was not only happening in down stream, but also up stream which is 300 meters high from sea level. According to its topography, villages located in Simpang Jernih should not be flooded, but the fact was all villages there were flooded. This happened because Tamiang River flow was blocked by logs which brought away by the flood. The accumulation of flood caused th...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=11 HIV and AIDS training and workshop for civil society organisations in Central Java and Yogyakarta involved 27 participants from YPL, SPEKHAM, LPH Yaphi, Ekasita, LKTS, and YSI staff. The activity took place at YSI Office in Yogyakarta, and aimed for enhancing perception and understanding of HIV/AIDS, of associated risks , vulnerability and impacts, and of committment to HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in respective organisations. YSI as organisers invited Ms Erlinda Panisales, Andreas Subiyono, and Slame...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=10 More than 10 years, the issues surrounding Juwana River occupy public debate in Pati; particlarly regarding floods. In those ten years, floods occured at least four times which resulted from overflows of Juwana River. These events have become major national headlines because of the floods' disruotive impacts on the Pantura Highway – a vital routes for distribution of goods and services in Java. Last flood-related road disruption on this 62.5km stretch of Pantura Highway occured in 2008. The Nat...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=9 Training on Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Analysis in Pati District was done on 13th, 14th, 15th April 2009, in Salatiga. There were 27 participants attended this training represented 8 villages partner of SHEEP Indonesia Foundation, which are the village of: Karangrowo, Tondomulyo, Sugiharjo, Bumirejo, Kedungpancing, Kasiyan, Babalan and Doropayung. In the first day, participants were asked to identify various threat of disaster which often faced by the people and dr...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=8 What Kosean Village Head said above was spoken out in the workshop of Fixed Revision of Disaster Mitigation Procedure (January 6´ 2009) in Regional Development Agency office in Pati. His statement showed that procedure was not an urgent matter. The statement meant a lot. First, the village head was about betting his position as the workshop was not a proper forum to speak out about people´s problem related with the flood. He was aware that he might be offended by other participants s...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=7 Introduction High density of rainfall in the begining of 2009 in northern area of Java caused the flood extension to many other ares, spesifically in the area of JRATUNSELUNA River Flow. Geological character, added with environment degradation and uncertain climate change very much affected flood vulnerability in each year. The condition aboved was not responded by government's policy which adopt "Disaster Risk Reduction" principles as defined in the action plan of National Developm...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=5 YAPPIKA Research in ten districts in NAD, including East Aceh (Peureulak and Darul Aman sub-districts) identify powerlessness in village Government. These powerlessness stemmed from the New Order policy of applying uniform village governance in Indonesia and from mutual distrust and fear amongst villagers. In an armed conflict, village heads could not exercise their roles and functions effectively because of fear towards TNI or GAM. For the latter (TNI and GAM), villages became the arena to pla...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=4 People-to-People meeting become important in a world where conflict resolutions tend to be the monopoly of academics, political elites and international institutions, and where macro political urgencies take precedence. \r\nTheir approach ignores the impacts of the conflict on local people, their experience, interests and aspirations. The People-to-People Meeting therefore constitutes an alternative to peace for the people who suffered most from the conflicts. Additionally, this program promote...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=3 East Aceh, as was Nangroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) propinsi, was affected by the Tsunami on the 26 December 2004, although the impacts was much less here, in terms of human lives and properties including houses and public facilities, but particularly firm farms and rice fields. In this context, East Aceh is in a transition period from post-Tsunami emergency into rehabilitation and reconstruction.\r\nIn terms of public health, Tsunami did not cause much physical damage to the health insfratructure. ...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=2 Alternative education for children program was firstly aiming at providing media for children to recovering children´s mental and creativity after long time of conflict and Tsunami. Education was done throug learning traditional dancings, painting and literacy program for dropout students. After peace agreement and public schools refunctioning, SHEEP then more focused on education advocacy for accessible education for shool-aged children. \r\nEducation as people´s basic right was n...... http://www.sheepindonesia.org/en/?page=news&viewid=1