Launching of ACF's Apprenticeship Program

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In effort to support human resources development at local level, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) through its Disaster Preparedness Program is launching an apprenticeship program in Disaster Preparedness. The apprenticeship program will select 2 or 3 participants from local NGO’s or local government of disaster prone area to join series of activities in ACF for 1 month. During the session, participants will have the opportunity to adopt, modified, and develop the knowledge they received through the program into their own area.

Objective
The objectives of the program are:

• Sharing of information and experience between ACF and partner agencies as participants of the apprenticeship program.
• Improve knowledge and skill of participants in Community Based Disaster Management
• Improve network between apprenticeship participants with various DRR practionners and other stakeholders involved at different level in DRR.
• Receiving feedbacks from participants on the performance of Disaster Preparedness Program conducted by ACF in 3 Kelurahans.

Participants
The apprenticeship program is planned to be followed by 2-3 participants. To be the selected participants, several criteria needed to fulfilled are:

• Minimum High school graduate
• Staff of government institution or LNGO, CBDO working in disaster management activities, and located in flood prone area.
• Candidates are staff who currently working on disaster management program or projected to work in disaster management program in their institution.
• Show strong motivation and commitment to work on disaster management program
• Willing to undertake the apprenticeship program and to implement the knowledge received in their institution.
• Having commitment support from the line manager in their institution.

Time and Venue
The apprenticeship program will be conducted in Jakarta on January 14th until February 8th 2008 (20 working days).

Content
The content of the program are:

• Disaster Risk Management basic concept and Community Based Disaster Management approach Capacity Building in CBDM
• Community Organizing in CBDM
• Disaster Education and Campaign
• Field activity in 3 Kelurahan (learning by doing)
• Coordination/networking (meetings attendance, events …)
• Report Writing
• Restitution: Designing and implementing a CBDM

Expected Outcome
As the output, participants are expected to have:

• The knowledge of basic concept of Disaster Risk Management
• The knowledge to analyze various stakeholders on Disaster Risk Management field
• The knowledge of the concept of Community Organizing
• The skill to analyze other area in the concept of Disaster Risk Management

Additional Information
ACF provides reimbursement of air transportation for economy class and land transport. The maximum amount to be given for transportation is 2.500.000 IDR, which will be given based on real expenses. ACF will provide meal allowance for 50.000 IDR per day for 20 day. Accommodation in Jakarta will be provided.

For more information, contact:
Erma Maghfiroh
Jl Dharmawangsa IX No. 120
Phone. 021-7257320 or 7220775
Fax. 021-7248768
Email : erma_maghfiroh@yahoo.co.id

How to Apply
Submit your CV at latest Sunday December 16th 2007.
Submit 1 page essay of where you currently working and what makes you interested to join the program.
Submit a written statement to participate fully on the whole session conducted (20 working days) and recommendation letter from his/her manager.

All document to be send to erma_maghfiroh@yahoo.co.id at latest Sunday, December 16th 2007

Selected candidates will be contacted by ACF at latest Wednesday 19th December 2007.

Update*
Selected Participants
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Press Review for November 2007

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Jakarta has started to prepare itself for flood. Since November 6^th, flood has occur in 4 areas ofEast Jakarta, namely Kampung Melayu, Bidara Cina, Cawang, and Kramat Jati. No evacuation has been conducted. On November 19^th, following the massive rain in Jakarta and “water shipment” from Bogor and Depok has widen the flooded area in Jakarta. In Kampung Melayu, Bukit Duri, and Petogogan, flood has reach 1 – 1.5 meters high. Not only in Jakarta, several other provinces has also experience flooding. It was recorded that Riau, Central Java, Papua New Guinea, South Kalimantan, North Sumatera, and Banten were also flooded in several areas.

On disease issue, diarrhea attack North Jakarta area. Unsterilized mineral water was suspected to be the cause. A number of 113 people were infected and 7 of them even died. Avian Influenza was still occurring. Another death occurs in Riau and Tangerang. From DIY, dengue was recorded to take at least 10 lives per year. In Magelang, the Health Office has increase their preparedness due to increase of dengue case in the there area. Other disease-related topic in highlight this month are extraordinary occurrence of Anthrax in Kotabaru, Ende NTT, Malaise killed 17 people in NTB during 2007, extraordinary occurrence of Chikunguya in Purwakarta, and Health Office of Sumenep found 50 cases of malnutrition.

Earth Quake in Dompu, NTB killed at least 6 people, injured hundreds of people, and causing damage up to 70 billion IDR. Bengkulu was also experiencing earthquake on Tuesday Morning November 6th 2007, November 11th, November 17th, and November 29th 2007. While massive rain has caused landslide in Banjarnegara, Kebumen, and Banyumas. Two people were reported to be dead. Landslide was also happened in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. Hurricane phenomenon still occurs in Semarang Central Java, Pati, and Sidoarjo.

International news, death victims of Sidr Hurricane in Bangladesh has reached 1800 people. The number was later on revised by Bangladesh Red Crescent to be 10.000 people. In Dominika, Noel Storm has killed 81 people, Titag Storm in Philippine killed 10 people, earthquake in Niigata Japan killed 6 people, and humanitarian crisis in Somalia has caused 88.000 people flles from their home.

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Climate Change

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Quoting from” The other half of climate change: Why Indonesia must adapt to protect its poorest people”, UNDP, 2007:

Impact on urban dwellers
A sea level rise of between 8 and 30 centimeters would also have a serious impact on coastal cities such as Jakarta and Surabaya, which will become even more vulneable to flooding and storm surges. This problem has been made worse in Jakrta becuase at the same time as the sea level has been rising, the ground level has been falling: the construction of tall buildings and the increasing extraction of ground water have been causing the land ti subside. But Jakrta has regularly been subject to regular flooding as a result of heavy rainfall: in early february 2007, flooding which lasted for about 22 days killed 57 people and forced 422,300 to leave their homes, of which 1,500 were destroyed. Total damaged was estimated to be about US$695 million.

One stdy has estimated that the combination of a sea level increase of about 0.5 metres and continuing land subsidence would lead to the permanent inundation of six locations – three in Jakarta (koasmbi, Penjaringan, and Cilincing) and three in Bekasi (Muaragembong, babelan, and Tarumajaya) – with atotal population of approximately 270,000 people. Many other parts of the country have recently experienced flood disasters, Heavy floods in Aceh, for example, at the end of 2006 took 96 lives and displaced 110,000 people who saw their livelihoods and assets destroyed. In 2007 in Sinjai, South Sulawesi,s everal days of floods destroyed roads and bridges and isolated 200,000 people. Later in the year, floods and landslides in Morowali, North Sulawesi forced 3,000 people to move into tents and barracks.


And from another chapter about The adaptation imperative:

Adaptation in urban areas
Many of the health issues need to be given particular emphasis in the urban areas. For Jkarta, for example, the Indonesian Red Cross has a climate-change campaign to improve clean water strage and reducing vulnearbility to dengue fever through cultivating fish that eat mosquito larvae. These activities are based in building local capacity and participatory planning – reaching out to youth and increasing awareness of adaptation among local government and community leaders.

As the floods in 2007 in Jakarta demonstrated, the vulnerable urban communities also need to be prepared in particular for the eventually of floods – and should have emergency plans in place.

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Flood in Penjaringan, November 2007

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Kelurahan Penjaringan area, especially RW 017, or known as Muara Baru, experienced flood since Sunday 25th November 2007. Coastal flood is a frequent event as this area lies on low land of coastal area. Over the past few years, water debit on coastal flood has increased.

The main reasons of the flood are; First: Sea level has exceeded the height of the dam, causing sea tide flows to houses easily. Second: the drainage in this area is clogged making it more difficult to sea water to recede.

Sea water starts to enter houses on 8 am. Based on information from communty, the highest water volume happens on Monday November 26th 2007. After that day, water still come to the land after the day but not as high as on Monday. The water usually starts to recede on 4 pm, by 7 pm all water has receded. But in the next day, water will come again at around 8 am.


Picture's explanation: The left picture was taken in the morning when water comes, and the left pictures was taken in the afternoon when the water has recede.

Inundated Area:
• RW 01, water mark 30 cm
• RW 02, water mark 30 cm
• RW 03, water mark 30 cm
• RW 017, 8 RT flooded up to 1 meter high. The worst affected areas are RT 18, 19 and 20

Injured Victims
Three people were injured hit by wood block carried away by flood.

Damaged Houses
There are 16 houses collapsed in RW 017 were hit by sea water and wood block carried away by flood.

Aid
- Kelurahan (2 evacuation tents, 10 box of instant noodle, and 30 box of mineral water
- Indonesian Red Cross (100 pc of blankets, 30 box of instant noodle, and 2 sack of mineral water)
- UPC (1 evacuation tent)
A health post was also set up by Penjaringan Sub District.

Community Activity
Plenty of people choose not to do their activity as most of their revenue comes from trading. Market activity was completely stopped because the market was flooded. Small shops (warung) which lies in higher ground or have private small dike were still operated.

Access to transportation
Mobilization was conducted by trishaw (becak) or boat. Some of people choose not to do any activity and waiting for the water to recede instead.
Vulnerable Group
Children and elder usually stays in their second floor’s house. If in any case, some of them need to leave the house, SAR team will help the evacuation process using boat.

Satlinmas
Head of Lurah as Chairman of Satlinmas has conducted several efforts as follows:
- Setting up evacuation tent in Iron Factory.
- Setting up 2 public kitchens (1 in Kelurahan Office, another one in Gedung Pompa)
- Coordinating SAR Team
- Distributing food aid

Based on the assessment result, ACF decided to send 2 rubber boat for RW 017, Kelurahan Penjaringan.

Writer: Arde Wisben
Translator: Erma Maghfiroh

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Press Review for October 2007

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Mount Kelud in in the highlight of the month. Increase activity of Mount Kelud has raise eruption thread. As of October 19th, most of local people still refused to evacuate. Apart from their bigger trust on Mbah Ronggo, the community leader, people has also raise an issue on the difficulties for them to access their source of income while they are in evacuation zone.

Rain season is coming, flood is approaching. In Lhokseumawe, 11 villages were flooded up to 50-80 cm high. In Medan city, some of the areas were even flooded up to 2 meter high. From Jakarta, 11 people representing flood victims submit appeal in City Court of Central Jakarta. Vice Governor of Jakarta, Prijanto, stated that flood in Jakarta will most likely difficult to be avoided. Therefore, Provincial Government prefers to conduct anticipation Activity in some of the flood prone areas. The activity consist of having 3.500 officials stand by, completed with equipment, early warning system, and medical back up (see page 9). In North Jakarta, tide on Monday (29/10) has inundated Tanjung Priok, Pademangan, and Muara Baru.

At least 7 sub districts in Garut, West Jawa, experienced landslide, Tuesday (30/10), damaging tens of houses and disconnecting some roads. In some areas of Indonesia, drought was happening. Farms in Tanjungbungin, Solokan, Tanahbaru and Telagajaya Village, Karawang, West Java were facing plant-failed due to dry season going on till this date. In Jasinga, Bogor, drought has caused water crisis. Water is difficult to get, and even if they get the water, the quality is bad. In Central Java, 25 sub districts and cities are facing the same problem.

Death victims of Avian Influenza are rise. AR (21) from West Java, died on September 28th, LT (44) from Riau, death on October 6th 2007, Ir (12) from Tangerang, died on October 13th 2007, and the last 4 year old child died on October 22nd 2007. Therefore, death victims on avian influenza have reached 89 people.

In Medan, Dengue is spreading again, during October, two people has died on dengue (see page 30). The number of HIV/AIDS patient in North Sumatera is in alert level. Up to June, the number of patients has reached 1.033 people. Post Idul Fitri, the number of diarrhea patients in Soedarso Hospital, Pontianak dominated. The same condition happened in Syamsudin Hospital, Sukabumi. High increase of number of patients has also happened in Palembang and surround.

Storm hit 5 sub districts in Palolo, Central Sulawesi, damaging tens of houses and public facility. Gobogan and Kudus district, Central Java also experienced storm. On Monday (15/10), storm hits 3 villages in Mandar, North Sulawesi Utara. In Demak, 502 houses were badly damaged, 13 of them were collapsed, hit by storm.

October’s edition also contains the statement from Fauzi Bowo, Governor of Jakarta; all parties have to be proactive in preparation and handling on disaster. An article from one of the house representative of West Java Province on disaster management was also attached.

International news, Vietnam was flooded, caused by Lekima storm. In West Africa, flood has caused 800.000 people affected. Series of high intensity earthquake of 6.7 RS shaken New Zealand, Tuesday (16/10), only causes minor damage. IN California, United States, fire department, as of Tuesday (23/10), still fighting massive fire in South California causing hundreds thousands of citizen evacuated.

Writer: Erma Maghfiroh
Translator: Erma Maghfiroh

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