[chapter-delegates] ISOC Response to Tsunami Crisis in Asia PROPOSAL

[Gene Gaines]

Irwan,

Receiving your 4 emails sent Thu, 13 Jan 2005 (+0700)
are very important, sad but very important for me.

Thank you.

I hope we will be able to work together to organize a
long-term project to assist people in the devastated
areas.

I will do some work today to answer each of your emails.

As to fatwa to permit burning of corpses, it makes good
sense to me, but I am not Muslim.  I will speak to the good
people in my local mosque today.  I expect they will say
that it is not proper for them to put pressure on the
leaders in another country, but we will see.

Gene
gene.gaines at gainesgroup.com

On Thursday, January 13, 2005, 12:17:44 AM, Irwan wrote:

> Dear All,

> I am from Indonesia and I would like to let you know that the number of
> casualties reported in Aceh merely comes from estimated body count. That
> number does not add up correctly if we sum it with the number of known
> survivors from the area affected. The total population of the entire
> affected area was nearly 800.000 (estimation from the last election, actual
> number is unknown due to lack of census in the area for the last decade)
> while the number of known survivor, both on the site, refugee camps, nearby
> villages, and those who already left the area to take refuge to relatives on
> other provinces, is estimated at around 400.000. Volunteer groups, media and
> state personnel has also agreed that the average survival rate for all area
> is somewhere between 50 to 60 percent, with coastal villages has the worst
> percentage.
> But the real problem now lies in the fact that so many bodies are still
> lying around, causing widespread of germs and diseases to the living. What
> we really need now is a little international pressure so that the Indonesian
> Ulama Council ( MUI ) agree to issue a decree (fatwa) that the corpses may
> be burned along with the ruins (religion forbids this). This will greatly
> increase survival chance for those who are still in the refugee camp right
> now, and speed up recovery progress because shortly after an area has been
> cleared up, all sort of transportation can easily access it. Recommendation
> is to start from the coastal area nearest to refugee camps, so that ships
> can start delivering trucks, tractors or whatever thing is needed there.

> Regards,

> Irwan Effendi

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erkki I. Kolehmainen" <eik at iki.fi>
> To: <chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] ISOC Response to Tsunami Crisis in Asia
> PROPOSAL


>> Dear All,
>>
>> Although I tend to agree with Mr. Kiravuo's attached statement on what
> ISOC could and should do, I have a serious problem with his apparent
> belittleing of the catastrophe on hand.



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