IS it true that our land is a paradisiacal land as sung by Koes Ploes late in the 1970s? Today, is it not more apt to call it a disaster land? Just think of the earthquakes in Nabire, floods and landslides in Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan, and the tsunami which devastated Aceh and parts of North Sumatra, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

The worlds eyes are focused on Indonesia, and this time not for its natural beauty. Assistance began comi