Word: indonesianness
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Aesih Irawan was drinking iced tea at a friend's house near the beach in Pangandaran, a resort town on the Indonesian island of Java, when the ocean crashed through the living room. The 27-year-old housewife was seized by the churning water and carried hundreds of meters down the beach before she became tangled in cable, which prevented her being swept out to sea. Irawan survived, but almost 700 people were killed, nearly 1,000 injured and some 20,000 families left homeless by the July 17 tsunami that hit a 177-km stretch of Java. Triggered...
...possibility of a local tsunami for land within 100 km of the temblor's epicenter. In the 2004 tsunami, those simple lines of communication did not exist. But that's the easy part. "The initial system did work," says Bernal. "From then on, it is the responsibility of the Indonesian system...
...tsunami that surprised Aesih (who survived after being tangled in cable and carried hundreds of yards down the beach) and so many other Indonesians revived questions about the country's early-warning system. Indonesian officials admit that no tsunami early warning system will be in place until the end of 2008, but deny that no warning was issued. "We issued a warning about the quake but not a tsunami," says Fauzi (he uses only one name), head of the Meterology and Geophysics Agency's technical department for tsunamis. He said the agency received an e-mail from the Pacific Tsunami...
...says that many technical hurdles will have to be overcome. "Using SMS would be one of the best methods but it will require a lot of technical coordination to prevent jamming when sending out to tens of thousands of handphones," says Jan Sopa Heluwakan, deputy head of the Indonesian Institute of Science, one of the agencies working on the system. "But after the warning you still have to know what to do and that is where we are unprepared...
...there is a profit motive for the military, so long as soldiers wake up in the morning thinking their job is to make money instead of participating in national defense, these kinds of abuses will continue." BRAD ADAMS, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, whose recent report on the Indonesian military's business interests alleges that intimidation and corruption still exist, despite reform efforts...