I visited random community who affected by tsunami in Aceh – Indonesia 10 years after, I asked them several question related to supported by NGO about their livelihood and other aspect. One question that interesting is what do you feel about that tsunami and their answer amazed me.
They said its tsunami came from God because God were angry for us with our mistaken so God given that to clean people who make mistake. Some of them are an educated people but still answer like this. I can see after 10 years of tsunami, the stigma is doesn’t change. People just forgot about it and face the daily routine as usual. If the stigma doesn’t change it’s not good for next generation because the youth will forget about it and when disaster happen again its can be a lot of victim and suffering.
After tsunami in Aceh
there is several disaster in Indonesia like tsunami in Mentawai, Tsunami in
Pangandaran, volcanoes, earth quake in Lombok and the last was tsunami in
Sulawesi. For all of this disaster this is still a lot of victim and destroys
many building and livelihood, its look like there is no lesson learns there.
Based from all of that, I can say the big victim came from community and sometimes that place is isolate from other and difficult to help them on the first week after disaster and they cannot help them self from the suffering, because of lack knowledge and capacities.
The idea to solve this problem is to make community understand and
have knowledge about disaster itself because after they have knowledge they
will know what to do 6 days post disaster before other aid came.
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