ON Sunday morning, Aryono Pusponegoro saw the impact of the terrible tsunami on Aceh and North Sumatra on television. By early evening, he was on a plane to the provincial capital of Banda Aceh. Along with him came colleagues from the Asian Medical Doctors for Disasters Association (AMDA).

Aryono is a doctor on call all the time. When he first witnessed the Aceh that television cameras had not yet recorded, he was stunned. “Absolute deva