Disaster in Minang Land
Cities along the southern coastline of West Sumatra were turned upside down by an earthquake on Wednesday last week. Tens of thousands of houses and buildings collapsed, burying hundreds of victims. The evacuation process is racing against time. Electricity, oil, and drinking water facilities are limited.
October 6, 2009
THE youth leant his body against a 1-meter-high fence which separated him from the service desk at the Office of the Secretariat for Work Health & Safety at the Dr M. Djamil Hospital in Padang. His eyes kept staring at the pictures laid out on the desk, searching for a face he might recognize.
Fitra, the youth, was not alone. On that Friday night last week, the command post (posko) for the evacuation of quake victims was constantly swarmed by r
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