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Indonesia: Earthquakes and Tsunami Operation Indonesia Red Cross / Palang Merah Indonesia International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Federation-Wide Internal Situation Update for Sulawesi No. 5 / 26 October 2018

Reporting period: 28 September – 25 October 2018

Volunteers with the Indonesian Red Cross conduct a health and hygiene promotion session for people impacted by liquefaction in Petobo. With the looming rainy season, encouraging proper hygiene is one way to keep disease at bay. (Photo: Italian Red Cross)

Partners supporting the country Federation Partners American Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, Finnish Red Cross, German Red Cross, Red Cross Society of China, Hong Kong branch of the Red Cross Society of China, Italian Red Cross, Japanese Red Cross, Korea National Red Cross, Kuwait Red Crescent, the Netherlands Red Cross, Singapore Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross, Turkish Red Crescent, Qatar Red Crescent.

Other Partners Government of Indonesia, UNCHA, IOM, OFDA, ASEAN AHA Centre, and also the Governments of Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, DG ECHO, OPEC`s Fund for International Development (OFID), private donors from Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the US, Grab Ltd, and Intercontinental Hotel Group have also contributed financially to the response..

Context With the immediate search and rescue and life saving phase over, the immediate needs are around emergency shelter, access to water and sanitation, health services and replacement of household items, especially for those whose houses have been damaged or destroyed.

Indonesia: Earthquakes and Tsunami Operation

Referring to the damage and the impact from the earthquake, the government of Indonesia declared a national emergency that will end on 26 October 2018. At that point, the air bridge from Balikpapan into Palu will be dismantled and the reception of relief items will shift towards Makassar and Palu directly. After the emergency phase the government has declared a transition phase of two months until the end of the year. With the emergency period ended, the operation is moving in to recovery phase. Upcoming relief is expected to shift focus on distribution of relief to affected people for recovery programme and more detailed recovery activities will take place in the coming weeks. In addition, there will be a shift from international assistance towards national assistance by accessing local market where quality, quantity, price, availability and feasibility is assured. IFRC Secretary General, Mr ElHadj As Sy is planning to visit Indonesia tentatively from 5 to 8 November 2018. He is scheduled to visit Palu on 6 November 2018.

IFRC Appeal and Bilateral Support As of 25 October 2018, the funding status for the appeal (Lombok and Sulawesi):

• 62% covered with hard pledges.

• 38% covered with soft pledges.

• 22% under negotiation.

Needs Assessment

• As per government/AHA Centre figures as at 25 October 2018 reported that the number of people displaced reduced to 206,494, missing/buried people has increased to 1,309, 4,438 people with major injuries, 2,081 fatalities and 68,451 houses damaged.

• Getting on top of relevant and fresh assessment data is still a major challenge for the wider humanitarian community due to the large-scale movement of population and significant access problems due to landslides. An early attempt at a Joint Needs Assessment resulted in a late and outdated report.

• IFRC is also assisting PMI to conduct needs assessments – observations, semi-structured interviews, and post-distributions monitoring with additional questions – in parallel with distributions.

• Assessments for emergency health and public health has been concluded as well as WASH assessments for the 10 PMI’ emergency shelter sites. Access to clean water continue to be one of the main needs.

• The Government of Indonesia has come up with a detailed guideline on the Collective Temporary Shelter for 14,400 families, to be constructed within 3 months. This would be targeted to people who have lost their houses and lands. Solutions for semi-permanent shelters for other groups are emerging and NGOs can be involved in supporting that component.

• Those who opt to stay outside their homes due to fear of secondary events should be supported with tarpaulins, but otherwise have access to their belongings.

Current Operational Strategy

• The operation aims to support Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI) in delivering assistance to the needs of 160,000 people (40,000 HH / ration per HH 4-5 persons). The current Appeal budget is set at CHF 13 million for a period of 18 months, to be revised in the coming month.

• The Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) has reviewed and revised by Asia Pacific regional office and shared with IFRC Geneva for review and approval. The EPoA is expected to be published this week. The EPoA will be revised in the coming months followed by a revision of the Emergency Appeal.

Map of affected areas by the earthquakes, tsunami and liquefactions in Central Sulawesi. (Photo: IFRC) [Click here to enlarge]


• 1st rotation of FACT, ERUs and Surge support will end soon. 2nd rotation will commence earliest at end of October and/or early November 2018.

Operational Risks

• Rainy season is beginning, where it is forecasted that there will be rain and thunderstorms at several districts in Central Sulawesi that can cause floods, landslides and potential outbreak of disease.

• The security framework is finalized, including annexes for medical evacuation and contingency, and will be disseminated to the IFRC team and Movement partners.

Facts and Figures The following are the sectoral highlights on initial emergency relief phase and services provided by PMI through the support of IFRC and the partner National Societies as of 22 October 2018. Summary of the key figures is provided in the infographics below.

For snapshot of key figures and reports, see the Go Platform page for the operation.

Coordination

• The coordination between IFRC, PNSs, PMI and the Government of Indonesia remains very close.

• The government’s restrictions on international assistance and relief processes and procedures remain the same.

• The Government of Indonesia has declared that the national emergency will end on the 26 October 2018.

Health

• One PMI emergency clinic (Type 1 EMT/fixed is running as usual and managed by trained staff and Puskesmas (MoH primary healthcare centre). 388 people benefitted from the PMI emergency clinic since it opened on 17 October.

https://go.ifrc.org/emergencies/3288


• New rotation for IFRC Health will be arriving on 2 November 2018.

• 2 new JRCS medical advisors arrived to support the clinic. ERUs continue supporting the clinic in terms of IT/T connectivity, WASH and Basecamp.

• PMI, Indonesian Military (TNI) and BNPB has conducted aerial spraying of liquid disinfectant in the joint effort to prevent outbreak of vector-borne diseases at the liquefaction areas.

• Diseases surveillance through EWARS for potential disease outbreak regularly. Hotline number for surveillance (focusing on event-based surveillance) has been launched by MOH and circulated with all PMI medical teams.

• An orientation on Ambulance and Referral system was organized for PMI medical teams on 22 October 2018.

• Referral criteria for Air Ambulance has been developed.

• PMI WASH and Health volunteers were mobilized in Petobo, liquefaction area, to conduct health and hygiene promotion. 2 CBHFA/ECV facilitators from South Kalimantan and Banten Province are arriving on 26 October and an orientation/training is planned end of this week for 20 Health volunteers. On 23rd October, the team visited one of the biggest IDP camps in Petobo (Palu City) to meet community leader and discussed about strategy on community engagement for disease prevention and control. PMI team has also done disinfectant spraying in targeted areas of PMI IDPs – in Petobo and Balaroa.

• Updated total people reached by health services as at 24 October; 5,329 people.

• 1,051 people have been reached with psychosocial support.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

• PMI continue distributing clean water via 16 trucks to affected people in Palu, Donggala and Sigi districts. As of 24 October, 1,635,630 liters of clean water have been distributed.

• Construction of latrines in PMI emergency shelter sites has started but will have to be scaled over the coming days and weeks as camps are finalized, and families move in.

• Received water treatment plant for water distribution. WASH team is establishing a new camp in Sirendja that can cover more beneficiaries.

• 10 Unit of latrines is under construction for PMI base camp in Garuda Soccer Field. Italian Red Cross will set up an additional 12 latrines and 12 showers at the basecamp, and also 4 latrines and showers in PMI clinic in Tompe.

• Health and WASH combine their promotional activities together which is the 1st initiative by the PMI. Posters can be the best media. This new combined Hygiene and Health Promotion activities to be held in the Petobo camp is expected to reach 300 household (1,200 people).

• 1,286 people have received hygiene kits, 770 received jerrycans and 1,708 people received hygiene promotion.

• Challenges: o PMI WASH needs more resources to address the immediate needs in the affected

community. o Construction of latrines at residential areas can be challenging in term of deciding of its

location. Land issue for waste site can sensitive to the locals. o WASH started drilling for tube-well, but the community refused and demanded to stop due

to fear of mud and traumatized by the previous earthquakes and tsunami.

Shelter and settlements

• PMI has set up 10 camps (4 in Donggala, 5 in Palu, 1 in Sigi) with total of around 1,739 tents already built. Current final total caseload will be 2,000-3,000 people.

• The government is planning Collective Temporary Shelters for 14,400 families, to be constructed within 3 months. This would be targeted to people who have lost their houses and lands. NGOs can be involved in the building the collective temporary shelter based on government’s specification

• Government have decided on the standardized terminology for the temporary shelter; Collective Temporary Shelters. All documentation should use this term.

• Global Shelter Cluster is trying to obtain detailed shelter plan from the government and disseminate the information to the community. CEA will support in disseminating the message.


Relief

• Relief plan of action is finalized with inputs from WASH, Health, CEA and Shelter with standard packages and update on target to distribute up to 30,000 families (25,000 in communities and 5,000 in temporary relocation sites) including stock replenishment of PMI stocks.

• The Governor of Sulawesi Tenggara advised by the BNPB has informed in a meeting held on 25 October that the emergency phase finishes on 26 October and the transition phase towards recover will last two more months.

• Internal PMI discrepancies on distribution data between provincial level and district level. IFRC IM supports relief to identify the gaps and differences.

• Meeting with logistics to discuss on procurement plan based on new target and forecast based on delivery schedule.

• Challenges: o Challenge on the IFRC pipeline for distribution. Estimated by 25 October are 10,000

tarpaulins and 9,000 blankets. That allows to distribute up to 4,500 families without Shelter Tool Kit. It is estimated to finish distributions by the 1 November 2018 and the next plane with a similar amount of tarpaulins and blankets and 4,000 shelter tool kits it is estimated by 7 November. This will create a break in the distribution forecast.

o The PMI Relief team is leaving to Jakarta, being replaced by three new staff.

Information Management / PMER

• Reporting structure and scheduled has been finalized.

• EPoA has been reviewed by APRO and shared with IFRC Geneva for review and approval.

• Concluding assessment of PMI relief data systems and have identified several small adjustments that would improve the quality and efficiency of reporting. The long-term aim would be to make this information more usable for operational decision making.

• Supporting ad-hoc IM needs of different sectors within the FACT.

• linking in with other agencies conducting assessments and gathering together secondary information to try and build up a more comprehensive picture of the situation.

• Challenges: o While multiple individuals within PMI are conducting IM activities, there is as of yet no clear

counterpart. o There remains a lack of coherent information about the developing situation. o Confusing reporting requirements received at different levels causing delay in production

of PMER products.

• Next step: o Advocate steps for improved information flows in short term and develop long term plan for

sustainable approach. o Identify Red Cross assessment priorities. o Continue to support IM needs of rest of the FACT as they arise. o Discussion with APRO and PMER Lombok on establishing modified template for combined

reporting for both operations.

Restoring Family Links (supported by and in coordination with ICRC)

• ICRC has recently launched a family link site for people looking for family members affected to the Sulawesi earthquakes and tsunami. This include people who would like to register to inform their families that they are safe and alive. The site is available in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.

• Link to the site: https://familylinks.icrc.org/indonesia/id/pages/home.aspx.

• As of date, 1,601 cases of RFL has been requested.

Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA)

• PMI has activated and promoted the national feedback loop – hashtag #TanyaPMI to communicate and engage with people on social media on the current emergency response on Sulawesi. A series of life-saving messages have been widely shared on social media platforms.

https://familylinks.icrc.org/indonesia/id/pages/home.aspx


• PMI and IFRC are working together with Internews and Alliance of Independent Journalists in Indonesia on developing rumour-tracking strategies, considering that local communities hear various rumours and are worried of rumours they receive on social media and online media.

• Coordination with CwC partners including UN OCHA, CDAC, BBC Media Action and more are on-going with the main provision of information is supported by the IFRC’s CEA Coordinator from Palu.

Basecamp

• The Italian Red Cross set-up team of 9 delegates are in Palu to support to establishment of the Basecamp.

• WASH is supporting Basecamp on establishing piping line system and sanitation.

Logistics and Supply Chain

• Local procurement plan with relief for the next 6 months has been finalized in coordination with relief.

• LOG-ERU in country since 5 October 2018 and in Palu since 6 October 2018. Fully operational from IFRC Palu office + 1 Air Operations person at Balikpapan air bridge.

• WFP and IFRC are building its mobile warehouses on the same land, IFRC is giving access to WFP to the land and will draft an MoU.

• IFRC is supporting PMI on logistics HR capacity building through hiring and training a logistics coordinator, strengthening local procurement activities and competencies.

• Development of PMI Logistics to become a multi-agency and stakeholder holder coordination and management platform.

• The Humanitarian Hub will be closed on 26 October. Subsequently, regular importation procedures with tax exemption application will take place.

• Procurement will focus on facilitating the distribution plan and also the health and wash sectors. IFRC/PMI will have to investigate options of purchasing items in Balikpapan, Makassar or even Jakarta.

• Pipeline: o Awaiting customs inspection of shipment of 3,250 Tarp sheets, 4,000 STK (Shelter Tool Kits)

and 10,000 Blankets, medium, which arrived into Jakarta on 23 October. o NZ IT Telecom equipment finally customs released and forwarded by air to Makassar, from

here trucking to Palu. ETA Palu 26 October. o 460 family Tents and 1,600 Mosquito Nets arrived from KL in Balikpapan on 24 October. o 2nd flight from KL to Balikpapan is delayed until 26 October. o All relief items received were forwarded to Palu.

Communications

• Planning and preparing for one-month mark since double disaster; updated key messages and reactive lines; prepared press release for issue 26 October; shared with Movement partners; spokesperson identified.

• With media interest waning, focus is turning towards identifying interesting stories to tell and gathering audio-visual material - this week included RFL, NFI shipments, and basecamp preparations.

• Supported visit by USG Jagan Chapagain, gathering photos and video, which were shared with Geneva for further dissemination.

• Regularly engaging on social media channels, profiling the response, achievements, needs

• Facilitated media interview (AFP) with FACT leader - questions included general situation, work being done, and unreached communities.

• Supporting media requests for photos/broll.

• Challenges: o Media interest is declining, with most international media having left Sulawesi. May need to

begin thinking of other approaches to media coverage such as op-eds or statements by IFRC or PMI.


• Next step: o Facilitate any media interviews in relation to one-month mark. o Possibly conduct a Facebook Live with PMI on 28 October. o Continue to gather audio-visual material and share with Movement partners, working closely

with Italian Red Cross communications focal point who is in-country until 3 November. o Oversee planning for visit by IFRC Secretary General. o Update key messages and reactive lines as needed. o Support Lombok communications; 29 October is three months since Lombok experienced

the first in a series of earthquakes.

Security

• Security level remains orange, due to the impact of the disaster and the risks that has created. All members are compulsory to attend security briefing prior deployment to the field.

• Security Revised Regulations has been reformatted to be less basic and includes sharing responsibilities of roles, less restrictive movement policy in Palu, etc. Note: International staff are not allowed to use taxi in Palu.

• There are adjustments on walking restriction within the immediate area of the IFRC offices and hotels.

Administration / Finance / IT & Telecom / Legal

• Admin in Jakarta and Palu continues managing the Welcome Centre and updating the HR mobilization table.

• Dinar, Admin from American Red Cross based in Jakarta arrived in Palu to support administrative and sourcing for new office space in Palu.

• Preparation for IFRC SG visit for Indonesia from 5 to 8 November 2018.

• IT&T ERU continue to support PMI for VHF radio comms and Internet access at some sites.

• The ERU shipment of equipment has finally cleared by the Customs and should reach Palu on Friday, 26 October.

• Continuing analysis of IT & Radio Comms needs at PMI branches.

Human Resources

• HR personnel from CCST Jakarta will come to Palu to assist national staff recruitment.

• PMI has mobilized a cumulative total of 850 personnel to Central Sulawesi from all over Indonesia since the start of the response.

• The IFRC team now comprises of a total of 53 people in-country, most based in Palu.

• Current HR resources for the operation in Jakarta and Palu as at 25 October 2018:

Human Resources Total

Head of Emergency Operations (HEOps) 1

IFRC staff recruited for Palu office 3

IFRC CCST and APRO national staff on short mission to Palu 8

IFRC national staff consultant 1

FACT 5

Partner NS HR support, under IFRC coordination (national and international) 6

ERU (including incoming base camp set-up team, ETA 2223 October) 26

Global shelter cluster international and national staff 3

Total 53


For more information, please contact:

Dr. Ritola Tasmaya; Secretary General, PMI mobile: +62-217 992 325

email: [email protected]

Arifin M. Hadi; Head of DM

mobile: +62-812 9777 7755


For administrative support, please contact: IFRC CCST Jakarta: Siti Rahimah, Surge Admin; [email protected] , +62-818 0885 0584

IFRC Palu: Hendriyani Sofyan, Sr. Administration Officer; [email protected], +62-811 8885 909

Stephen McAndrew, Head of Emergency

Operations (HEOps), Sulawesi Earthquakes and

Tsunami Operation

mobile: +417 9708 4579


Jan Gelfand, Head of CCST Jakarta

mobile: +62-811 9690 8324


mailto:[email protected]







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Indonesia: Earthquakes and Tsunami Operation Indonesia Red Cross / Palang Merah Indonesia International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Federation-Wide Internal Situation Update for Lombok / 26 October 2018

Reporting period: 28 September – 24 October 2018

Earthquake and tsunami response. PMI delivered the psychosocial support activities for children in East Lombok. (Photo: Andung Asyari/PMI)

Partners supporting the country Federation Partners American Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, Finnish Red Cross, Hong Kong Branch of the Chinese Red Cross, Italian Red Cross, Japanese Red Cross, Qatar Red Crescent, Netherlands Red Cross, Singapore Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross and Turkish Red Crescent.

Other Partners National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD), Indonesian National Police (POLRI), Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) and local government agencies. DG ECHO, the Governments of Australia (DFAT), Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the Intercontinental Hotel Group, Western Union, Grab and private donors from Ireland, Netherlands and the United States are supporting the emergency appeal as well.

Context Since the first 6.4 magnitude earthquake magnitude earthquake struck off Lombok, province of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, on Sunday 29 July 2018, four further earthquakes and multiple aftershocks in the last month have impacted the districts of North Lombok, East Lombok, West Lombok, Central Lombok and Mataram in addition to Sumbawa islands.

This situation report is issued to provide a comprehensive summary on current situation and response for the Lombok earthquake. The EPoA was initially issued on 21 September and is being implemented. This operation is being transited from relief to recovery phase. The recovery assessment will be conducted in November 2018 by a PMI/IFRC joint assessment team and the revision of EPoA are now under planning. PMI has been on the ground from the onset and deploying over 770 volunteers to support the operation. The following map indicates the sectoral highlights on initial emergency relief phase and services provided by PMI through the support of the IFRC and the partner national societies


According to BNPB reports as of 1 October, the disaster impacts of Lombok Earthquake is summarized below.

IFRC Appeal and Bilateral Support As of 25 October 2018, the funding status for the appeal (Lombok and Sulawesi):

• 62% covered with hard pledges.

• 38% covered with soft pledges.

• 22% under negotiation.

Needs Assessment

• The needs of shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health and psychosocial support, non-food relief items and disaster risk reduction are identified from the PMI need assessment and analysis of secondary data.

• Over 129,000 houses were damaged and more than 445,000 are still living in makeshift camps, host communities and temporary shelters. The PMI has conducted assessment and interviewed 935 households in North Lombok, East Lombok and Central Lombok from August and October. 74% of houses were heavily damaged. 10% and 12% of houses were moderately and lightly damaged respectively. Around 10% and 5% of respondents have received tarpaulins or materials of emergency shelters from PMI and other agencies respectively. There is a need for emergency shelter, and longer term solutions.

• The health services were disrupted by the damaged health facilities (90 units in North Lombok, 84 units in West Lombok, 35 units in East Lombok, 95 units in Central Lombok, 21 units in Mataram, 21 units in Sumbawa1). Some survivors are displaying signs of trauma, with several apprehensive of going indoors for fear of aftershocks – there had been more than 200 aftershocks recorded within 24-hours after the first event. There are needs for emergency health and psychosocial support services. Besides, the West Lombok administration declared a health emergency of malaria outbreak in September. PMI is delivering health promotion in Gunung Sarim, West Lombok, one of areas affected by malaria outbreak, to prevent the endemic expansion.

1 Information from National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) on 1 October 2018 https://www.bnpb.go.id/jangan-lupa-ribuan-korban-gempa-lombok-sumbawa-juga-masih-memerlukan-bantuan-kita

https://www.bnpb.go.id/jangan-lupa-ribuan-korban-gempa-lombok-sumbawa-juga-masih-memerlukan-bantuan-kita


• The operation is in the transitional period from relief to recovery. PMI and IFRC are planning to conduct recovery assessment in November 2018 and revise the Emergency Plan of Action in December 2018. A joint recovery assessment team will be formed by the PMI NDRT and RDRT members from different sectors. Although the government has plans for long term shelter programs, PMI would like to be involved in the mid-term to support transitional shelter solution.

Security and risks analysis

• Asbestos is widely used in roof construction for most houses in Lombok and Sumbawa. There is a potential risk of exposure to asbestos with a large number of houses damaged. The community’s awareness on this health risk is low. Community sensitisation is ongoing in the distribution of CTP, shelter materials, health promotion and activities.

• Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall are likely during the rainy season from November to March. The accessibility may be hampered, and the living condition of displaced people may be further deteriorated. The PMI is working to speed up the relief effort before the arrival of rainy season. The assessment of disaster risk reduction activities is ongoing.

Current Operational Strategy

• For Lombok operation, this operation targets to provide assistance to 80,000 people (approximately 20,000 households) affected by earthquakes in Lombok and Sumbawa with appropriate relief and recovery assistance. The operation will last for 20 months

• It is the transitional period from relief to recovery phase. The team is shifting the focus from emergency response to recovery, DRR mainstreaming and Build Back Better. The IFRC and PMI are carrying out continuous need assessment and cross-sector analysis to identify the changing needs. The integrated programming, health risk of malaria, dengue and asbestos will be addressed in the recovery plan. The team is ensuring community and local government participation and programme accountability to affected people.

• While the relief activities are being implemented by the end of December, the PMI/IFRC joint recovery assessment will be carried out in November in parallel. The RDRT alert will be issued shortly to form the assessment team. Then the recovery assessment report and revised EPoA will be finalized in early December.

• The EPoA was initially issued on 21 September. Following is the summary of key interventions completed by 24 October 2018.

Facts and Figures The following are the sectoral highlights on initial emergency relief phase and services provided by PMI through the support of IFRC and the partner national societies as of 24 October 2018. Summary of the key figures is provided in the infographics below.

For snapshot of key figures and reports, see the Go Platform page for the operation.

https://go.ifrc.org/emergencies/3288


Coordination

• The PMI and IFRC organized a coordination meeting on 25 October to review the progress of relief assistance and decide the way forward of recovery plan.

• Coordination Meeting is regularly conducted in the field twice a week to receive update from all PMI sectoral teams.

• The humanitarian response in Lombok is coordinated by Indonesia’s National Management Authority (Badan National Penanggulangan Bencana, BNPB) and Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) in the emergency phase. They are coordinating the response and collating information on the earthquake’s impact. In the recovery phase, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Works are coordinating the sub-clusters or working groups of shelter, WASH, PGI and cash assistance. PMI is participating in the sub-cluster meetings for better coordination and shared resources.

Shelter (including NFIs) / Relief

• 2 emergency schools have been constructed by PMI Shelter Team.

• Around 47,000 people have received NFI, including family kits, blankets, school items and clothes.

• 5,028 and 858 households have received tarpaulins and shelter toolkits respectively. It is targeted to complete the operation target to distribute tarpaulins for 10,000 households and shelter tool kits for 3,300 households in the coming weeks before the arrival of rainy season.

• The cash transfer programme has started on 22 October. 340 households have received vouchers. PMI is going to mobilize total 30 volunteers from NTB Chapter and Bali Chapter to speed up the distribution and target to distribute multipurpose cash to 8,000 households.

• PMI has been operating field kitchen for 468,239 people.

• PMI is coordinating distribution of relief items emergency services. Below is the list of items distributed by PMI as at 24 October 2018:

Items Units

Tarpaulins 10,056

Shelter Toolkit 1,142

Hygiene kits 2,533

Family kits 155

Baby kits 676

Cleaning kits 141

Blankets 10,916

Mattress 527

Health • Over 15,000 people have been engaged with

psychosocial support programme (PSP). PSP activities will be continued in communities and schools. Integrating PSP elements into other sectoral activities is under planning.

• A PSP project targeting adults is now being implemented in 3 villages of North Lombok. The project aims at resuming people’s normal lives and

PMI is constructing emergency shelters for displaced population (Photo: IFRC)

PMI is providing health services in the earthquake affected areas. (Photo: PMI/Andung Asyari)


livelihoods by providing agricultural training, seeds and farming tools. PSP team is exploring to extend this project to other areas.

• 9,778 people have been reached by emergency and mobile clinic since the onset of disaster. • The health promotion activities, assessment and monitoring of malaria and dengue will carry on.

The main focus of Health Team is health promotion in respond to malaria outbreak in West Lombok and Sumbawa.

• PMI PSP Coordinator is participating in the coordination mechanism of Ministry of Social Affair.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

• Over 12.7 million liter of clean water has been distributed and benefited estimated over 468,000-person times. The water trucking is ongoing while the target of clean water distribution in the emergency phase has been achieved.

• The key focus of PMI WASH Team in October and November is rehabilitation. 15,609 meter of water pipe has been installed. The sanitation facilities and communal toilets have been renovated or constructed for 600 households.

Disaster Risk Reduction

• The DRR team has conducted initial assessment in North Lombok, West Lombok, East Lombok, and Central Lombok. The assessment covers 1 village for each district and identifies the major threats. Assessment in Sumbawa district is being planned.

• The plan of disaster risk reduction activities will be formulated with the assessment result.

Protection, Gender and Inclusion • The PMI Psychosocial Support Team is joining the protection, gender and inclusion cluster meeting

led by the Ministry of Social Affairs every week. • The training of children protection will be provided to Psychosocial Support Team members.

Migration and Displacement • The latest estimate is that more than 445,000 people have been internally displaced following the

earthquake.

• All operational interventions will be undertaken in line with the Red Cross Movement Policy on Internal Displacement (2009), including assessing specific needs linked to displacement and meeting the needs of the most at risk: including both displaced communities and host communities. This is particularly where displacement becomes prolonged or protracted, and where there are barriers or delays to return or other durable solutions.

• As to date, 51 cases of RFL have been registered and 22 cases have been closed.

Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA)

• The PMI has also conducted a rapid assessment on information, communication and accountability and surveyed 257 people in North Lombok, East Lombok and West Lombok during August 2018. The assessment indicated the inadequate information of relief supports in the remoted areas. Most people in Lombok speak Bahasa Indonesia while some elderly speak more their native language Sasak. It is recommended to improve the communication channels by social media and local radio in order to deliver lifesaving information in both local languages. PMI will work close with Head of village or sub-village to receive feedback from community members.

• Feedback and complaints received from communities suggest that they are struggling to access information about aid distribution. To address this, PMI has promoted several communication channels to reach out to for two-way dialogues. PMI is now working on establishing a dedicated hotline number for this operation to help ensure that people can access timely information and provide their views on this operation.


For more information, please contact:

Dr. Ritola Tasmaya; SG, PMI mobile: +62-217 992 325


Arifin M. Hadi; Head of DM

mobile: +62-812 9777 7755


For administrative support, please contact: IFRC CCST Jakarta: Siti Rahimah, Surge Admin; [email protected] , +62-818 0885 0584

IFRC Palu: Hendriyani Sofyan, Sr. Administration Officer; [email protected], +62-811 8885 909

David Andrew Strobel (Drew),

Operation Manager, Indonesia Earthquakes and

Tsunami

mobile: +62 (0) 813 1660 3099


Jan Gelfand, Head of CCST Jakarta

mobile: +62-811 9690 8324








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